FINED TWO HUNDRED POUNDS
NEGLIGENT DRIVING CAUSING DEATH LICENCE CANCELLED FOR TWO YEARS I Per Press Association, j WELLINGTON, Feb. 12. A line of 1200 and prohibition from driving for two years were the penalties imposed by Mr. Justice Johnston in the Supreme Court on Leonard Stewart, aged 48, pram manufacturer, Petone, found guilty of negligent driving, causing the death of Aloert Edward Boyes in Cambridge Terrace on November 8. The jury had strongly recommended mercy. Attributing the accident to a boisterous night and the fact that Stewart was only slightly under the influence of liquor, the Judge intimated that the line was to include the costs of the prosecution. Had it not been for the jury's recommendation he would have found it extremely difficult not to impose a term of imprisonment. He thought the jury must have believed the evidence of friends as to character, and that evidence was, in his view, very convincing in many ways The jury must also have considered his condition on this occasion not in tune with the known character of the accused, and really, perhaps, an accidental lapse.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 37, 13 February 1941, Page 6
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185FINED TWO HUNDRED POUNDS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 37, 13 February 1941, Page 6
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