GAOL FOR DRIVER

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 15

GAOL FOR DRIVER

INTOXICATED IN CHARGE OF MOTOR-VAN (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, September 23. “In spite of the very ingenious defence offered by counsel, the evidence satisfies me that the accused'must be convicted,” said' Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, in sentencing Leslie Arnold Moulder, a painter, aged 38, on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor-van. The accused denied ’the charge, and denied another charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker. He pleaded guilty to charges of using obscene language and resisting a constable. Sub-Inspector Fox said that a constable saw the accused and a companion, both staggering and obviously under the influence of liquor, get into a truck. The accused sat at the wheel and the engine was started,’ but the van did not move off, although the accused appeared to make two or three attempts t- get it going. Counsel submitted that the accused was not in charge of the van. He got into it to try to locate a defect, but he had no intention of driving it away. . On each of the charges of intoxication, obscene language, and resisting the police, the accused was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, the terms to be concurrent. The charge of ‘bookmaking was dismissed.