PUBLICAN SENT TO GAOL
INTOXICATION IN CAR MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT (Per Tress Ass&cifUicm.) AUCKLAND, this day. In sentencing an hotelkeeper, John Donald Shea, aged 46, to seven days’ imprisonment in- the Police Court today for intoxication while in charge of a car on August 10, Mr. F. H. Levicn, S.M., said he felt that the method of imprisonment in such cases should be fully tested "to see if it would deal with this special evil.”
Shea’s arrest followed a collision between his car and a motor lorry on Waterfront road. He pleaded not guilty on Friday last, when the magistrate reserved his decision.
The defence raised was that Shea was suffering from an epileptic seizure, and medical evidence was called to show that he had been treated for seizures over a period of years.
The magistrate said there was nothing in his medical history to ,suggest, that this was in any special way responsible for accused’s lapse.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 11 September 1939, Page 6
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156PUBLICAN SENT TO GAOL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 11 September 1939, Page 6
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