LAWYER'S PROTEST
PERSECUTION ALLEGED MOTOR CASE DISMISSED (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “I wish to make the strongest protest that this charge should be brought at all. It is a scandalous instance of prosecution developing into persecution,” declared counsel in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when William Connor was charged with supplying false information. , After hearing the evidence the magistrate, Mr. E. C. Levvey, dismissed the charge, saying that it revealed a very grave omission in the regulations. Sub-Inspector Packer said that Connor was involved in an accident on April 26 and on July 11 was convicted on a charge of failing to give way. Later he was involved in an accident in which a man was killed and he made a voluntary statement to the police. In this he said he had been driving for 14 years and had never had an accident. Counsel said that Connor was under no obligation to give information, and could only answer questions to the best of his ability. He, submitted there was no case to answer. The case was dismissed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 7
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178LAWYER'S PROTEST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 7
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