TAXI-DRIVER WOUNDED
LABOURER SENT TO PRISON (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 6. Mr Justice Johnston, in the Supreme Court to-day,' sentenced Bennett Coles Middleton, aged 18, a seaman and labourer, who was found guilty last week of committing a negligent act causing bodily harm in such circumstances that if death had followed he would have been guilty of manslaughter, to one.year’s imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by three years’ reformative detention. The trial was the sequel to the ~wounding of a taxi-driver, Richard Andrew Webber, with a cut-down .22 rifle in the Masterton district early on the morning of April 25. The jury did not return verdicts on the alternative counts of attempted murder, attempting .to render the taxi-driver incapable of resistance with intent to rob him, and assault with intent to rob, but the judge directed that the verdict of not guilty should be. recorded.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25298, 7 August 1943, Page 3
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