DRUNKEN DRIVER
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Term of Imprisonment
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PALMERSTON N., Last Night. Sentence of 21 days hard labour and disqualification from driving) for two years was imposed on Harold Lionel Voss, pauelbeater, aged 21, now of Wellington, by Mr J. Stout, S.M., on a charge of being intoxicated While in charge of a car. The vcase was the sequel to an accident in which a youug vvoman cyclist was knocked down. The latter gave evidence that the aecused could hardly walk straight or keep his balance. When asked fcr his name he said he "didn't have oue but went by a number." The Magistrate, after further evi dence said that the case was different from ordinary ones in which a man was found sleeping off the offence.. of intoxication or was arrested before driving, the car. , "I have offered repeated warnings that if these cases continue I will inflict imprisonment. That is what I am going to do here. Not only did the accuscfl drive while in a state of semiintoxication but he did not assist the case by first denying to the detectives that he had been driving, by denying knowledge of the accident by refusing to give his name." 1
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 150, 13 July 1937, Page 13
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204DRUNKEN DRIVER Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 150, 13 July 1937, Page 13
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