SUPREME COURT.
[by telegraph—per press association.] • NAPIER, Feb. 23. The Supreme Court opened this morning Indore the Child Justice, Air Skemdt. Addressing the Grand Jury Lis Honour congratulated the district on its freedom from crime. Referring to the Gpapa train fatality li,is Honour said the law was quite plain on tlie point. The public* were entitled to expect that care, prudence and precaution that a skilled engine driver might lie expected ordinarily to have. An engine driver was expected to act up to a certain standard and if it fell below that standard and persons were killed as a result the driver was guilty of manslaughter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1926, Page 3
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106SUPREME COURT. Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1926, Page 3
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