TRIED -BY HIS PEERS.
NO CASE TO ANSWER. LORD DE CLIFFORD ACQUITTEDUnited Press Assn. —Eiee. Tel. Copyright. (Received Dec. 13, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1-2. (Reoeived Dec. 13, 10.10 a.m.) Lord de Clifford was ushered into the presence of 100 Peers in scarlet and ermine and four advisory Lords Justice, and bowing to the vacant throne, submitted himself to the judgment of his Peers, over whom Viscount Hailsham presided. Otherwise the proceedings were like those in an ordinary court. Lord de Clifford was acquitted on the advisory Judges upholding counsel’s submission that there was no case to answer, asking could it be criminal negligence if in the agony of the moment before the collision Lord de Clifford took what, he believed to be the only course.
Lord de Clifford, who is 28 years of age, and whose title goes back to 1229—he is the 26th baron—was committed for trial by a Kingston magistrate on a charge of manslaughter. He was driving >a car which came into collision with a car driven by Douglas Hopkins, who was killed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19758, 13 December 1935, Page 8
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