SENTENCE AMENDED
DRUNKEN MOTORIST. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, November 7. The sentence of three weeks imposed on Gustave Neilson in the Police Court on Monday for being intoxicated in charge of a car was amended by Mr Bundle, S.M., after re-hearing, Neilson being fined £lO and prohibited from driving for 10 years. The Magistrate heard the evidence of Dr de Latour as to defendant’s disability, through a war injury to the skull, making him abnormally sensitive to alcohol, but did not accept the doctor’s view that Neilson was incapable of forming a judgment at the time he allowed another man, also intoxicated, to drive for him. His Worship held Neilson was not in such a state of helplessness as to escape the charge of aiding and abetting an intoxicated person to drive his car.
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Southland Times, Issue 22733, 8 November 1935, Page 6
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135SENTENCE AMENDED Southland Times, Issue 22733, 8 November 1935, Page 6
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