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Police and Connsel for Defence MAGISTRATE ADJOURNS CASE
Oharged with negligent' driving, Stacey Edward Hill pleaded guilty in the Napier Magistrate's Cour.t this morru.ng before Mr J. Miller, S.M. Mr S. H. Morrison represented the defendant. Because of diserepancies between the statements made in Court by counsel for the defence and by the police, the Magietrate adjourned the case for a week to enable witnesses to be called. The police alleged that -defendant drove down a hill in an erratie manner, passed another car which pulled up to let him pass, and then hit a telegraph pole and ran into a d.tch. The car was damaged and Hill suffered injuries. The police maintained that defendant smelt of liquor, but Mr Morrison denied this. The defence aseribed the accident to the driver's being dazzled by the kghts of an approaching car, but the police said there was no other car nntil some time later. Defendant pulled over when he saw this car approaching, said Mr Morrison, but he went too close to the edge and collided with the pole. H'-s forekead was badly injured and the car was a total loss. Defendant had been driving for some years.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 102, 17 May 1937, Page 6
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