WRONG DEFENDANT.
WINTER CUP WINNER'S DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association. HAWERA, July 23. The unusual occurrence of a wrong defendant being charged, and a father being called to give evidence against his son, was noted in Court to-day, when the Magistrate (Mr Salmon) dismissed an information against Lionel Hicks, who was charged with permitting tw r o horses to be at large on a highway. One of the horses, the former racer Bisox (winner of a Winter Cup) was involved in a motor collision and had to be destroyed. As the owner, Robert Hicks, when interviewed by the police, said he believed his son Lionel Hicks had been carting in a horse paddock, and was responsible for leaving a gate open, the police proceeded against the son, but in Court the father said he had since found from an employee who since had left that he had been doing the carting referred to on the day of the accident.
The charge was dismissed without evidence for the defence.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18627, 24 July 1930, Page 13
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167WRONG DEFENDANT. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18627, 24 July 1930, Page 13
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