NOT QUESTION OF TESTS
INTOXICATION CASES MAGISTRATE'S RULING (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, this day. Holding that a medical certificate in a case in which ,a charge of intoxication was referred against John Gibson Cook, aged 29, a motor driver, Te Awamumu, was not evidence, the Magistrate, Mr. S. L. Paterspn, dismissed a charge in the Haaiiuvi. Police Court. Intoxication was not a matter of tests said the Magistrate. The British Medical Association had expressed the opinion that an experienced police officer was as capable of judging if a person was intoxicated as .any medical officer unless there )were pathological reasons for intoxii cation. It was on record, said Mr. I Paterson, that a man known to be . intoxicated had pulled himself together for the medical test, passed it and then collapsed. He recalled a case in which a man was arrested for straight-out drunkenness. A doctor had certified him as sober, but during the night the arrested- man was taken to the hospital with alcoholic poisoning. It was further proof of the unreliable . nature of the tests .for intoxication.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19918, 21 April 1939, Page 6
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