“MOTOR OFFENCES ARE TOO FREQUENT”
JUDGE’S COMMENT PALMERSTON CASES Press Association. PALMERSTON N., To-day. The , quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court opened this morning, before his itonour Mr. Justice McGregor. Addressing the grand jury, his Honour said the criminal calendar was rather a heavy one, there being five persons for trial on five indictments, and in some of the cases grave and serious, offences were alleged. “Two of them,” he said, “are of a kind that are becoming altogether too frequent, being motor-accident cases in which death was caused allegedly through a negligent act or omission on the part of the driver'. “The laW is* qtiite clear that any person driving a motor-vehicle must exercise reasonable' care,' otherwise he is criminally liable if any person, passenger or otherwise is killed negligence,” True bills were.'‘.returned in four cases. No bill was returned in a case in WhiOh 'Kirk Mitchell was charged with causing the death of his wife through negligent driving.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 272, 7 February 1928, Page 1
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