NOT GUILTY
NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE (Per Press Association—Copyright). NEW PLYMOUTH, August 15. After Justice Ostler had suggested, in summing up, that it would be dangerous to convict on the circumstantial evidence offered, the jury acquitted Leonard Bicheno on the charge of driving a ear negligently and thereby causing bodily injury to Harold William Hill.
The defence set up an alibi. One of the chief points in the Crown’s case was the. hair found on the uiidorpart of which a. pathologist .Said, was similar to that of the injured man. ' ;i '
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1933, Page 3
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