SUPREME COURT
DUNEDIN SESSIONS. [ Per Preas Association. 1 DUNEDIN, Oct. 29. Prisoners sentenced were: Robert Kirkness, aged 40, for breaking and entering, eighteen months imprisonment concurrent with the sentence he is already serving for a similar (-rime; Leslie William Gibbon*, aged 28, for theft from a. dwelling, described as a master criminal of a. desperate type., two years’ imprisonment. NAPIER SESSIONS. [ Per Press Association 1 NAPIER, Ort. 29. Air. Justice Ostler presided at the opening of the Supreme Court. Referring to the case in wh'ch a motorist is charged with negligent driving, thus causing the death of a second party, the Judge, in addressing the jury, said that it was not necessary to put a man on trial because he happened to have killed another man, unless such death was due to negligence. If the deceased cvclist had seen the oncoming car there vxas no responsibility to sound the horn, and as the motorist had seen the cyclist he must have been keeping a proper look-out. The motorist may have been justified in concluding that the cyclist approaching from the left of the interesection would stop for the. motorist. Before a man could be put. on trial on such a charge there had to be prime facie evidence of negligence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 257, 30 October 1934, Page 6
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