TIMARU SUPREME COURT

Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1934, Page 5

TIMARU SUPREME COURT

NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE.

DRIVER ACQUITTED BY JURY.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, July 25.

The quarterly session of the Supreme Court opened yesterday. Two criminal cases were set down for trial) In his charge to the Grand Jury Mr. Justice Johnston said that apparently there was a case to answer in both instances, the charges being one of negligent driving thereby causing the death of Ivan Herbert Smith, which was preferred against John Robert Nimmo, Dunedin, and one the murder of an infant child preferred against Margaret Lucy Dickel, an unmarried woman, Timaru. The jury returned a true bill against Nimmo and no bill against Dickel. In the Nimmo case, after a retirement of 21 minutes, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.

Owing to a mutilation in the telegraphed message received and published in the Daily News yesterday morning it was stated that in the Supreme Court of Timaru: “True Bills were'returned in the cases of John Robert Nimmo, charged with negligent driving causing death; and Ivan Herbert Smith, charged with murdering an infant child.” The rarrect message is made plain by the above report. An apology is tendered to the relatives of the dead man for the unwitting error.