RECKLESS DRIVING.
MOTORIST SENTENCED FOR MANSLAUGHTER. Christchurch, This Day. When sentencing J. T. Doherty to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of manslaughter, connected with a fatal motor collision, Mr Justice Reed said that the case was a bad one. If Doherty was an intelligent man he must have realised long ago that he was temperamentally unfitted to drive a car. He was glad to hear the statement by counsel for the defence that Doherty would never drivo a ear again. If there was to be any deterrent to persons who drove recklessly, imprisonment must be imposed, and he would regard it as a breach of duty to do otherwise in the present ease. In fixing the term of six months he took into consideration the recommendation of the jury.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2630, 8 September 1923, Page 3
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133RECKLESS DRIVING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2630, 8 September 1923, Page 3
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