PALMERSTON NORTH
The local quarterly session of the Supreme Court opened this morning before Mr Justice MacGregor. Addressing the grand jury, His Honor said the criminal calendar was rather a heavy ono, there being five persons for trial on five indictments* some
least of them alleged n it-spccfc of grave and serious offences. Two _of the cases were of a kind becoming •altogether 100 frequent—motor accident • cases, said His Honor. Each death was caused allegedly through a negligent act or omission on the part of the driver. The law was quite clear. Any person driving a motor vehicle must exercise reasonable care, otherwise he was criminally liable if any person, a passenger or otherwise, was killed by his negligence. True bills were found in four cases, and a no bill was returned in the case in which it was alleged that Alexander Kirk Mitchell had caused the death of his wife through the negligent driving of a motor car.—Press Association telegram.
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Evening Star, Issue 19784, 7 February 1928, Page 6
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