RESERVED JUDGMENT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20284, 6 December 1935, Page 15

RESERVED JUDGMENT

CHARGE DISMISSED The Magistrate (Mr C. R. OrrWalker) gave reserved judgment at a sitting of the Court in Timaru yesterday in the case in which James Hamilton Lennox was charged with driving a car at St. Andrews on July 30 in a manner which, having regard to the circumstances, might have been dangerous to the public. The Magistrate said that the evidence to his mind did not support the charge of driving at an excessive speed. The estimates given as to the speed of defendant were only rough estimates. Defendant himself had admitted that he had been travelling at between 35 and 40 miles an hour, and it had been admitted by the prosecution that 40 miles an hour was not a dangerous speed on that particular road. He was called on to decide this particular charge only, and not as to whether there had been negligent driving. That had been disposed of to an extent by an action in the Supreme Court, but even that was not binding on him on the charge then before him. He could not hold that the evidence supported this charge, and it would be dismissed. Tell-tale toes are possessed by the Boslem natives of Northern India. They cannot keep their toes still if they are telling lies. In many courts they are ordered to remove their shoes and stand in view of judge and jury when giving evidence.