GAOL FOR PERJURY
CAR ACCIDENT SEQUEL [BY TELEGRAPH PI! Ess ASSOCIATION] CinUSTCIIURCH, Friday Six months' gaol was imposed on Robert Hamilton by Mr. .Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court to-day on a charge of perjury. Hamilton pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, evidence being given that lie was a passenger in a car which was involved in a fatal accident and that at the inquest lie declared the car was travelling in the opposite direction from that in which it. really was travelling. The driver of the car, at the time of the fatal accident, Sydney Archibald Church, pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate's Court to-day to a charge of perjury in that at the inquest he swore the car was travelling from the South Bridge toward Leeston. when in fact the car was going the other way, thereby intending to mislead the Court. Ho was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 10
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