MOTORIST’S TRIAL

Grey River Argus, 11 February 1941, Page 4

MOTORIST’S TRIAL

FATAL ACCIDENT. WELLINGTON, February 10. At the trial of Leonard Stewart, evidence for the Crown was completed to-day and the Court adjourned, after the accused’s counsel nad addressed the jury. Twenty-one witnesses were called for the Crown. Stewart, a pram manufacturer, 48. of Petone, is charged with negligent' driving, causing death, and failure to stop after an accident. The charges followed an accident in Cambridge terrace, Wellington, on the evening of November 8, when Albert Edward Boyes, 67, was knocked down and killed. Accused’s counsel said that the uefence to be put forward was that, while the accused admitted his car had knocked down Boyes, he had been totally unaware of the accident, and so had driven on. He would admit running into a stationary lorry afterwards, but the Crown s infer - ence that he had done so deliberately, so as to give a reason for his damaged car, was fantastic.