NEGLIGENT DRIVING.
A PLEA OF GUILTY. RAILWAY PORTER FINED £l5O. DELIBERATE RECKLESSNESS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. In the Supreme Court, Clarence Douglas Hector Orr, aged 24, railway porter, pleaded guilty to a charge of negligently driving a motor car at Petone on September 19, thereby causing the death of Marco Humphrey. He was. fined £l5O, and, prohibited from driving for four years.. There was another count of manslaughter, but the Crown Prosecutor accepted the plea of guilty on the minor charge.
Mr Justice Blair said Orr was well advised to plead guilty. It seemed to him that the jury must have found him guilty on one or other of the charges. He did not think the case was one for imprisonment, and he knew from his own experience of juries that they very much resented imprisonment being imposed in such cases unless, they were exceptionally grave. In the present case there was no element of deliberate recklessness, but all the same Orr would have.to pay a substantial fine.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18164, 31 October 1930, Page 8
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169NEGLIGENT DRIVING. Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18164, 31 October 1930, Page 8
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