FEVER OR BEER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 155, 21 September 1927, Page 9

FEVER OR BEER

DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AUCKLAND MOTORIST CHARGE J (Prom Our Oum Correspondent) HAMILTON. To-day. Charged with being found intoxicated while in charge of & mouor-c <i r at Hamilton on September 16. John Henry Victor Mansell, solicitor. Auckland, appeared before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., this morning. ar. 1 pleaded not guilty. It was stated that defendant's a*dition was first noticed by the trail inspector, who, with another person was satisfied that he was drunk ar, not fit to be in charge of the car. Police witnesses confirmed, this, st.-, ing that defendant was staggering ar drunk. Mr. Tomkins, who appeared lor tU defendant,, stated that he drove froi i Auckland to Cambridge on the da\ in question and transacted legal bm ness very satisfactorily. The onl\ evidence tendered was that fever, frot 1 which he suffered was a type of malarial complaint with muscular rheu matism, and affected the ioints of ti body. Defendant had been troubled wi: bouts of it, and that wc uld accour for the staggering, and an old wound on the lov»*er lip for incohsrent spec, when he became excited Accused' aotionis would naturally convey the im pression that he was drunk to tho><with a precor ceived idea cf his eondi tion. The case is proceeding.