GUILTY OF CAUSING DEATH
MOTORIST REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. DRUNK IN CHARGE OF CAR. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, February 11. A verdict of guilty on the major count was returned in the Supreme Court to-night by the jury in the case in which Leslie Raymond West was charged with causing the death of a youth while driving a motor car in a state of intoxication. The jury left the court at 3.55 p.m. and with the exception of a short interval at 5.40 p.m. when it returned to make a request of Mr Justice Kennedy, did not appear until 9.40 p.m.. West was remanded till 10.0 a.m. to-morrow for sentence. West was charged that on October 20, while in charge of a motor vehicle, by an act or omission he caused the death of ‘William Eric Johnston, a motor cyclist, and bodily injury to Edward Hayward, a pillion rider, and that through negligence he caused the death of Johnston and bodily injury to Hayward.
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Southland Times, Issue 22813, 12 February 1936, Page 8
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