MOTOR OFFENCES
A JUDGE’S DIFFICULTIES.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, May 12.
The difficulty of dealing with charges arising from fatal motor accidents, when accused persons are of excellent character, and - there is no suggestion of intoxication, was mentioned by MiJu.stice Hardman in the Supreme Court, when sentencing two men, both of whom were stated to have excellent records.
The Judge said such men were net criminals in the sense that a thief, burglar or forger was a criminal. “In these cases intent, to do injury is always absent. The fault consists in failure to take sufficient care. Still, the loss of life caused by careless drivers is becoming so frequent, and misery-and injury caused to relatives, so great, that T may have to consider. #if these offences do. not diminish, whether imprisonment. instead of being the exception should be made the rule.”
Both men, John Thomas Kite and Frank Victor Lester, were fined £75. six months being allowed tln iri to pay.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1932, Page 6
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