ROAD FATALITIES
APPEAL COURT JUDGMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. July 14. The Court of Appeal, in its judgment in a case stated by Mr Justice Blair under Section 442 of the Crimes Act arising out of the trial in Dunedin in May of William Alexander Tait (following on the death of two persons in a road accident near Mosgiel) quashed the convictions under the third and fourth counts, namely, of failing to render al] practicable assistance to injured persons and failing to ascertain if he had injured Vera Thomson. Regarding the former of these counts the Court said that seeing that Miss Thomson was killed outright it seemed immaterial whether the prisoner know she was injured and in view of the fact that she was dead no practicable assistance could have been rendered. Concerning the latter count, the Court was of opinion that the jury had not been adequately directed. In view of the fact that at the trial the judge j did not take these two counts into i consideration when sentencing the prisoner, the existing sentence stands, that on the major charge of negligent driving causing death.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 11
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