DRUNKENNESS VOLUNTARY
MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, July W. Hugh Mayne, aged 58, was charged with assault and causing bodily harm to Walter Green, and was fined £lO, half to go to Green. Mayne and another lodger, who were both very drunk, were locked out by the landlady, who appealed to Green, a neighbour. He opened his door and Mayne rushed him and stabbed him in the leg with a pocket knife. The magistrate, Mr. E. Page, said Mayne’s drunkenness -was a voluntary act, therefore he was responsible for his actions while drunk.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1929, Page 7
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