MOTORIST PROSECUTED
CHIEF JUSTICE AS WITNESS v MAGISTRATE DISMISSES CASE [BY TELEGBAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON. Friday The Chief. Justice. Sir Michael Myers* was the principal witness for the prosecution in the Magistrate's Court in a case in which he was responsible for an information being laid. Incidents on the Hutt- Road on Sunday, afternoon, December 18, attracted the attention of the Chief Justice, and as a result Herbert J. S. Rickard. a city, chemist, was charged with driving in a manner which might have been dangerous to the public. After hearing the evidence of the Chief Justice, his chauffeur and a traffic inspector and several witnesses for the defence, the magistrate, Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, considered that there was room for reasonable doubt, and accordingly dismissed th® charge.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21426, 25 February 1933, Page 9
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