NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE
(United Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 10. Twenty-one witnesses will be called for the Crown in the trial which opened in the Supreme Court today of Leonard Stewart, a pram manufacturer, aged 48, of Petone, who is charged with negligent driving causing death and with failure to stop after an accident. The charges followed an accident at Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, on the evening of November 8 when Albert Edward Boyes, aged 67, was knocked down and killed. Evidence for the Crown was completed and the Court adjourned after accused’s counsel had addressed the jury. Counsel said that the defence to be put forward was, that while the accused admitted his car had knocked down Boyes, he had been totally unaware of the accident and so had driven on. He would admit running into a stationary lorry afterwards, but the Crown’s inference that he had done so deliberately . so as to give a reason for the damaged car, was fantastic.
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Southland Times, Issue 24357, 11 February 1941, Page 5
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161NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE Southland Times, Issue 24357, 11 February 1941, Page 5
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