MOTORIST ACQUITTED
"DANGEROUS TO CONVICT" "This is a case in which it would be dangerous to convict." said Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, dismissing a charge of being intoxicated in charge ol a car against Patrick Morice McCann. motor driver, aged 26 (Mr. Bryee Hart), who pleaded not guilty. Evidence was given that accused's car collided with a telegraph pole on tlio New North Road next the Mount Albert post office at abdut 2.-1/3 a.m. on August 4. A man found accused slumped over the wheel, and assisted him into a shop, where injuries' to his head were treated,- and be later fell asleep on a sofa. When".police arrived in an ambulance at 3.55 lie smelt of liquor and 'was arrested, but a doctor who examined him at 4.45 certified that he was not intoxicated. Accused said he must have, fallen- asleep at the wheel. «
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23733, 13 August 1940, Page 10
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