SENTENCES VARIED

Evening Star, Issue 23698, 4 October 1940, Page 4

SENTENCES VARIED

CASES AGAINST MOTORISTS [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 4. On November 2, 1930, Henry William Mosen was sentenced by the Supreme Court at Wanganui to a lino of £l7 on a charge of failing to observe the righthand rule and thereby causing bodily harm. At the same time his driver’s license was cancelled for two years. The Court of Appeal to-day, on the application of Mosen, varied the cancellation of his license by reducing it from two years to one year. The court also varied the sentences imposed by the Supreme Court on Oswald Oliver Wahrlick at Auckland on August 2, 1940. Wahrlick was then sentenced to 18 months’ reformative detention on a charge of recklessly driving a motor car and thereby causing bodily injury, and to 18 months’ reformative detention on charges of theft and unlawful conversion of a motor car. the sentences to bo cumulative. The court to-day varied the sentence on the charge of rrt-kless driving to 18 mouths’ labour, to bo followed by 18 mouths’ reformative detention. The oilier sentence of reformative detention is to stand, to he served concurrently.