GAOL FOR MOTORIST
DROVE WHEN INTOXICATED SENTENCE OF 21 MONTHS [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIN, Friday " People in your condition should never .drive a motor-car," said Mr. Justice Kennedy in sentencing Leslie Raymond West, aged 30, to imprisonment with hard labour for 21 months on a charge that, being in charge of a motor vehicle while in a state of intoxication, he caused the. death of a young man and bodily injury to another. His Honor added that the roads had become death traps for innocent people and were attended with intolerable danger if intoxicated people were permitted to continue to drive. The case was one in which a young motor-cyclist, named Johnston, was killed by a car driven by the prisoner near Waitati.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 12
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124GAOL FOR MOTORIST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 12
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