"NOT FIT TO DRIVE CAR."
MOTORIST GETS SIX MONTHS. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) CHRISTOHURCH, Friday. In sentencing J. T. Doherty to six months' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of manslaughter connected with a fatal motor collision, which resulted in the death of Samuel James Cooke, Mr Justice Reed said that the case was a bad one. If Doherty was an intelligent man he must have realised long ago that he was temperamentally unfitted to drive a car. He (the judge) was glad to hear a statement by counsel for the defence that Doherty would never drive a car again. If there was to be any deterrent to persons Who drove recklessly imprisonment must be imposed, and he would regard it as a breach of duty to do otherwise in the present case. In fixing a term of six months' imprisonment to took into consideration the recommendation of the jury.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1401, 8 September 1923, Page 5
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