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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18763, 17 January 1923, Page 6

A distinguishing line between intentional and unintentional damage committed by a man in a state of drunkenness was drawn by Mr Wyvem Wilson, S.M., at Christchurch. A man had been charged with drunkenness and with having wilfully damaged a window to the- extent of £3. The police had explained that the man had leaned against a shop window and had fallen in. The magistrate said that when a man was drunk he could not control his arms and legs, and consequently an offence like the one with which defendant was charged could not be called intentional. It might give rise to a civil action, but it could hardly be called a crime, as the man had no control over his senses. When a man fought in a cab and put his arms through the windows it was a reckless crime, but in the present case he thought (hat sufficient discrimination had not been used in the wording of the charge.

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