FATAL MOTOR COLLISION.
DRIVER SENT TO GAOL; (Per Press .Association.) CHBISTCHTJRCH, Sept. 7. In sentencing J. T. Doherty to six months' imprisonment with hard labW on a charge of manslaughter connected with a fatal motor collision, Mr Justice Reed said that the case was a bad one. If Doherty was anintelligent man, he must have realised long ago that he was temperamentally unfitted to drive a car. Ho was glad to hear the statement by counsel for the defence that Doherty would never drive a car again. If there was to* be any deterrent to persons who drove recklessly, imprisonment must be imposed, and he, would regard it as a breach of duty to do otherwise In the present case, In fixing the term at Bix months, he took into consideration the recommendation of the jury,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 806, 8 September 1923, Page 11
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136FATAL MOTOR COLLISION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 806, 8 September 1923, Page 11
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