“A BORDER LINE CASE”
INTOXICATED MOTORIST GIVEN BENEFIT OF DOUBT I United Prone Association! WELLINGTON, 30th January. “In view of the doctor’s report, I am not going to impose a term of imprisonment. The accident may well have been caused through the weather and. as this case was so close to the border line. I am going to give you the benefit of what the doctor certified. "Though you were intoxicated, the intoxication was of a light degree,” said Mr J. H. Lux ford. S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when imposing a fine of £lO on Sydney O’Donnell Marriott, a butcher, who pleaded guilty to a charge of intoxication in charge of a motor truck. The police said accused collided with a stationary car and failed to stop. Counsel said the accused was driving in heavy rain The truck, because of the slippery road, became temporarily out of control. Marriott’s driving license was canceled
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 4
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