A JUDGE’S DILEMMA.
OVER JURY’S RECOMMENDATION Gisborne, March 13.—At the Supreme Court, the jury in the case in which. Albert Edmond Bourgeois was charged with manslaughter (arising from a collision between accused’s motor car and a gig, from which Kathleen Joyce Brown was thrown and fatally injured), returned a verdict of guilty, with a strong recommendation for mercy on the ground of the bad light carried by the gig and the state of the weather. Mr Justice Reed referred to newspapei comment on his action at Na pier in granting probation in a similar kind of case. He said it was difficult to know what to do. He would like tc give effect to the jury’s recommendation, but would require evidence as to accused’s reputation as a motor driver. He deferred sentence till Thursday, and accused was liberated without bail.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1922, Page 5
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140A JUDGE’S DILEMMA. Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1922, Page 5
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