DEATH OF A WOMAN.
MOTORIST CONVICTED. P«r Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH. May 14 A verdict of guilty with a strong recommendation to mercy was returned by the jury in the Supreme Court tp-day against David William Darragh, licensee of a hotel at Stratford, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of manslaugter, arising out of a fatal motor collision involving the death of Miss Gustofson. Sentence was deferred pending consideration of a point raised by Mr P. O’Dea, counsel for prisoner, that there had been misdirection of the jury. Counsel asked Mr Justice Macgregor to reserve for argument the question as to whether the Judge had not misdirected the jury when he had said in his charge: “You may place yourself in the position of the relatives—of a father or brother of the deceased—and decide whether you would consider that Daragh was responsible for the death of this unfortunate woman.”
The matter is to be argued at the conclusion of a case now before the Court.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17350, 15 May 1924, Page 4
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