DEATH OF YOUTH
MOTORIST FOUND GUILTY By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, February 11. A verdict of guilty on the major count was returned in the Supreme Court to-night by a jury in the case in which Leslie Raymond West was charged with causing the death of a youth while driving a motor car in a state of intoxication. The jury left the Court at 3.55 p.m. and with the exception of a short interval at 5.40 p.m., when it returned to make a request of Mr Justice Kennedy, did not appear until 9.40 p.m. West was remanded until 10 a.m. to-morrow for sentence. West was charged that on October 20 while in charge of a motor vehicle, by an act of omission he caused the death of William Eric Johnston, a motor cyclist, and bodily injury to Edward Noah Hayward, a pillion rider, and that through negligence he caused the death of Johnston and bodily injury to Hayward.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20340, 12 February 1936, Page 6
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