POLICE METHODS.
CHRISTCHURCH, August 1
A statement that the police did not bring a constable forward to give evidence in a case in the Magistrate’s Court to-day led to comment from both the magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley) and counsel for the defence (Mr Thomas). The charge, which arose out of a collision between a motor car and a cart on Saturday, was one against Bernard Richard Crean that, while in a state of intoxication, he was in charge of a motor car in Tuam street.
In addition to criticising the non-appear-ance of the constable. Mr Thomas alleged that the defendant had made several requests for a doctor and these had been refused by the police. One of the requests had been made to the constable who was not called as a witness. - The Magistrate said that in serious cases such as this one the court had to be satisfied that intoxication was proved. He would suggest that a senior officer of the police should be present when men were brought in to the station Apparently a senior man had been there on this occasion, but he had not been called as a witness. That was a matter for the police, and not for the court, which must found its decisions on the evidence submitted. However, the court was not satisfied. and the case would be dismissed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3830, 9 August 1927, Page 6
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