SUPREME COURT.
OBSERVATIONS BY JUDGE.
Per Press Association
NAPIER, Oct. 29. Mr Justice Ostler presided at the opening of the Supreme Court to-day. Referring to a case in which a motorist was charged with negligent driving, thus causing the death of a second party, the Judge, in addressing the jury, said it was not necessary to put a man on trial because he happened to have killed another unless such death was due to negligence. If the deceased cyclist had seen the oncoming car there was no- responsibility to sound the horn and, as the motorist had seen the cyclist, he must have been keeping a proper look-out. The motorist may have been justified in concluding that the cyclist on approaching from the left of the intersection would stop for the motorist. Before a man could be put on trial on such a charge there bad to be prima facie evidence of negligent driving.
PRISONERS SENTENCED. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Oct. 29. Prisoners sentenced in the Supreme Court to-day were:—Robert Kirkness, aged 40, for breaking and entering, 18 months’ imprisonment, concurrent with the sentence his is already serving for a similar crime; Leslie William Gibbon, aged 28, theft from dwelling, two years’ gaol. Gibbon was described as a master criminal of a desperate type.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 2
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214SUPREME COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 284, 29 October 1934, Page 2
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