YOUTH'S DEATH.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19147, 2 November 1927, Page 13

YOUTH'S DEATH.

NEGLIGENT driving. m oto«ist fo»' d cmLTY - Tihon. of Hinds, who tsui ,reme Col,rt ' Ti " ' was found guilty on a driving a motorMain North road on July thc ■ dMth of a Darid William *Jiitli. C\V D Campbell appeared for the .ml Mr vJ. nwma> lor ac ' n ',„ 0 pleaded nut guilty. cUS 'rl nuuell said the evidence to be i f ,1 i-ouid alicw tliat .-south was towards Geraldinc. It both W Itand cvclist were travelling on ® 0t ° IS Mdcs of the road, mere u*"i iTave been no accident. The aclie .submitted, took place m<l, ot thc road. The perhaps. incapacitated himby th, amount ot liquor be liad taken during tin: da\. 1 1.0 c\lfet bad bo." badly injured through tho :St, and had died shortly attertards. There no doubt that- death had been due to those injuries. p. p I'atei.ion, who attended deJ*d, said death was due to paralysis nf the respiration tollouing fiflrtmo or ♦he fkull and laceration ot llic brain. In his opinion South bad not moved, hit an unconscious might have "frnstable C'allanan roid accused n-inted out to him the place where he Glided with deceased. There was no broken gloss at this spot, although jjfre was a considerable amount of broken glass on the ot.lier side of the fold, the deceased's correct side. Aortjed said he was returning to his borne at Hinds. If such were tli.i case he abould not have been on tho side of the road where the glass was found. Witness examined deceased's bicy.do tad found that the right pedal was dumped. Accused told witness that ]k taw no ono on tho road. The lights en accused's car were bright and showed the road for a distance «f about two 4»ins. Accused had smelt of liquor, fii he considered that he iva.s slightly Bdcr the influence of liquor, although 5» van not intoxicated. There was jgoor in the car. Detective If. J. Walker said accused told him that he knew nothing of the iceideot until ho turned back. Jio had ten driving at 20 or 25 miles an hour, od bad felt a bump, but had i.ot applied tho brakes. The car had slowtd dwn and he had returned to where ' tbe accident had occurred. He savr lying on the road and had {ben gemo into Geraldino for the polio© - jfld* doctor. John South, uncle of deceased, said weoted told him ho was driving tm his (omct'side of the road. When witness him how he accounted for tho petition of deceased, if such * ere tho ate, the accused said that ' unit have ridden there. Accused 6melfc ef liquor, but was not drunk. Bno Scott, sawnjiller, Geraldine, said ti»t wbeu he saw accused on the night 8f the accident he smelt of liquor. '-Mrlliomas did not call evidence. - 'The difficulty in this case is the lack of eridence," said Mr Thomas, addressiag the jury. Tho Crown asked for a eonriction on a charge of negligent irking because there had been an acci- ' d(nt. and because there had been blood ud glass on the road. The itrongett evidence ho had was the lack «f evidence on tho part of the Crown. The police theory was that accused was ''(Wring on the wron-<» side of tho road. h i onutable had arrived on tho scene j .-*jtlun a quarter of an hour of the acciJiimt and had found, on a bard main. [' |»j, the tracks of deceased's cycle. [ he find the tracks of ' Jnjjaptitfn the wrong side?" lie asked, i #rtotyniited that the detective and wSftpjiWile had looked' for the car TOMpmt had been unable to find were no tracks there, ho Hldj MCiaie accused had not been on of the road. It had WW admitted that deceased had no tfee cycle. It was possible that" lost his sense of direction *nttrf|<3tig the bright headlights of wear.

retired at 2.50 p.m., and •ft*®' returned a- verdict of (W"J with a recommendation for < Sentence was deferred till to-day.