Tests of Sobriety.
LONDON COUNT DISCUSSION. LONDON. Nov 2>. The discussion of the problem. When is a man drunk ? was lilted from the low 1 v level of the Police’ Court into the heights of the Old Bailey, when the Recorder tried a motor-bus drive, on a. charge of injuring a woman. Ihe police alleged that the accident was due to the driver’s drunkenness. Li e Recorder, who has not long '.ecn a - pointed, frequently evinced a desue to acquire knowledge, and he asked the police doctor what tests ho employed. 1 The doctor said he used the Lgh test, which consists of a.slnng a. l'g t into the man’s eyes, and observing tli , sliced at which the pupils contract j The Recorder asked: Do you use the chalk-line test? The doctor said “No” and the ...■ - colder remarked. “That is the unfa. - cst test in the world. It is enough to make a. man drunk.” . The doctor vinterposed, infoimmg counsel that he doubted if counsel could walk a chalk-line. Council replied that perhaps could not last night, hut he could totll Tho doctor said he. did not employ the “ragged rascals ran, etc., > - or the “British constitution test, i The jury acquitted the driver.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1922, Page 3
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204Tests of Sobriety. Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1922, Page 3
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