MOTORISTS IN GAOL
MIXING WITH ORDINARY CRIMINALS HOWARD LEAGUE REMIT Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. whether motorists convicted o! manslaughter should be imprisoned with ordinary criminals was discussed today at the meeting of the Howard League for Penal Reform. A remit •was submitted as follows:—“That the question of punishments of motorists found guilty of offences under the Motor Vehicles Act, and, in particular, of manslaughter, be reviewed.” Mr. F. A. do la Mare contended that a man imprisoned for manslaughter as the result of a motor accident was not .a criminal in the ordinary sense i*f the term, and that to put such a man among the prison population was entirely wrong. Tt was decided to refer the remit back to the proposers for a delinite 4.ase to bo stated for discussion*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 961, 2 May 1930, Page 16
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131MOTORISTS IN GAOL Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 961, 2 May 1930, Page 16
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