NOT GUILTY
SALESMAN’S ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE.
SEQUEL TO FATALITY.
' (Per United Press Association.)
Wellington, June 4
A charge against Leo Joseph Smith, aged 24, a salesman, of negligently driving a motor car thereby causing the death of a person was. dismissed by Mr Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Smith pleaded not guilty. The charge arose out of an accident which occurred at about 6.30 p.m. on March 29 on Lambton Quay, a married woman, Lucy Jane Hampton, losing her life. Mr Page in summing up the evidence said it was a tragic accident. The question he had to decide was whether there was criminal negligence. There was evidence that the visibility was poor and defendant was on the correct side of the road and travelling very slowly at from 15 to 20 miles per hour. “On the whole view of it, I think there has not been disclosed that there was negligence on the part of defendant and there is not sufficient evidence, to send him forward to be tried by a jury.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21101, 5 June 1930, Page 5
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174NOT GUILTY Southland Times, Issue 21101, 5 June 1930, Page 5
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