GIRL STRUCK BY CAR
DRIVER SENT TO PRISON.
INTOXICATION WHILE IN CHARGE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night.
In the Supreme Court Samuel Qonald Halliday, charged with negligently driving a car so as to cause bodily harm, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment and was disqualified from obtaining a license for three years. Counsel for the prisoner said that previously Halliday had been charged before a magistrate with being drunk in charge of a car in circumstances similar to those which gave rise to the present charge. The magistrate had sentenced prisoner to hard labour for two months. After serving that sentence prisoner had to serve another three for theft and was released last month. Then he was arrested to answer the present charge. Counsel submitted that his only criminality was intoxication in charge of a car and for that he had paid a substantial penalty. In reply to the judge the Crown prosecutor said that the girl injured in the accident was in hospital for some time. The judge said there were no mitigating circumstances.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1935, Page 5
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