DRUNKEN MOTORIST
LENIENT TREATMENT. As intoxication was a matter of degree, drivers of motor cars rail a risk immediately they took liquor, and friends who tempted them to do so should lie prepared to share the responsibility, said a well-known medical practitioner when giving evidence in the Wellington S.M. Court yesterday. The case was cue in which I. Turnbull was charged with being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car. Defendant was convicted and fined £2O by Mr. W. 11. Woodward, S.M. The magistrate said that while accused was in s.uch a state of intoxication as not to be fit to drive, he was not in an advanced state and possibly it was not a bad breach of the law. “I think the accused’s demeanour in court shows he is not likely to come up before the court again for an offence of th is kind,’ ’the magistrate said. “The public will not need any further protection in this case, and for.; that reason I don’t think it is necessary to make ail order regarding his license.”
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 January 1932, Page 4
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