PLEA OF NOT GUILTY
Motorist Charged With
Intoxication Pleading not guilty in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday to being intoxicated in charge of a car on March 21, Albert John Havlll, slaughterman, aged 48, was remanded by Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., to appear again today. The magistrate ordered accused to be medically examined in the meantime. Sub-Inspector J. A. Dempsey prosecuted,+and Havlll was not represented by counsel. Evidence of seeing a car parked outside the Hotel Cecil at 8.10 p.m. on March 21 was given by Constable T. J. Steele, who said he saw accused enter the hotel and later come out and open the dickey seat at the back of the car. Accused was questioned because he had parked on a bus stop, and said he had booked in at the hotel. His speech was slurred and his breath smelt of liquor. Accused was asked who had driven the car, and replied that his wife was the driver. A woman in the car denied that she was the driver and said she was not the wife of accused. The police alleged that the woman was more intoxicated than the man.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 16
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192PLEA OF NOT GUILTY Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 16
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