INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Northern Advocate, 6 February 1936, Page 2

INTOXICATED MOTORIST

WELLINGTON MAN SENT TO GAOL

IPer Press Association. — Copyright .l WELLINGTON, This Day. “Speaking generally, drivers under the influence of liquor, who place innocent lives in peril, must expect to lose their liberty for a time,” said Mr Justice Smith in the Supreme Court yesterday, when he sentenced Robert Hunter Service, bank audit inspector, to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of negligently driving a car, thereby causing bodily

harm. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the

charge. j It is stated that, at Lower Hutt, on ! October 26. a car driven by prisoner ! collided with a car driven by Kenneth Carmichael, freezing works hand, of Palmerston North. Mr Carmichael was accompanied by his wife and child, and they were all injured. His Honour, in imposing the sentence, said that, although there was no special provision in New Zealand prisons, he had no doubt that prisoner’s case would be properly dealt with by the local authorities, and that he would be apart from ordinary prisoners. His Honour added that he would request the Minister of Justice to arrange that that should be done. In addition to imprisonment, Service had his driver’s license cancelled, and he was prohibited from obtaining a new one for two years.