HAMILTON SUPREME COURT

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1930, Page 14

HAMILTON SUPREME COURT

; SEQUEL TO. MOTOR FATALITY. J..,,..... By .Telegraph,-—-Press Association,, Hamilton, Last Night. - - Mr? Justice Smith, at the opening of -- the Supreme • Court to-day, in his charge to '- the Grand Jury, said eight cases would come forward for consideration, four of which related to the es-. • capadcs of youths'from Cambridge who had already been dealt with on other charges. In respect of these he was ‘' instructed that if true bills were returned the Crown would not actually 1 proceed with them. It wa.s nevertheless necessary that they should be presented to the Grand Jury. Of the remaining cases one related to to take reasonable care which one wars as to cause the death of a human be- ' ing; two alleged offences were against property; one charge alleged arson, and another theft. There was also a case of a sexual nature. • Referring to the charge against Hector John §ha,w of negligent driving so as to cause death, His Honour quoted .the law relating to negligence. Negligence,, he said, was defined, as failure the alleged negligent driving of a car so \ ordinarily expected , to exercise in the circumstances existing at the time of the .accident. ...... .... ~, . ‘ >On a.charge .of bigamy Aliva. Clarice Wendt ..was “admitted to' three years’ '- probation. . His.’Honour,remarked that on account of her. unfortunate married - existehce and the .fact, that. she was a , little . sub-normai he would extend to her the limit of leniency, ’