Signatures, Whisky, and Recitations
The inability of the accused to write his signature was a point stressed by a medical witness when a map. appeareJ before Mr. A. A. McLachlan, S.M., at Lower Hutt, on Wednesday, on a charge bf being intoxieated in charge of a car. "If that evidence is conelusive, then a liost of medical men would be stigmatised as being eternally drunk," said Mr. McLachlan. ' ' Many colleagues of mine, and many more of yours, have signatures which suggest a terrific state of intoxication! " Later, when the accused was giving evidence in his defenee, he said a doctor had told him that whisky in moderation was good for him. Mr. McLachlan: Is that doctor available in Lower Hutt? I am to consult a doctor soon and would like that one's address. Stating that he had given an item at a party, the accused said: I couldn't recite if I was tight. Mr. McLachlan: Oh! Well, I've heard others say that they couldn't recite until they were tight.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1949, Page 2
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