GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.
THE QUESTION OF SENTENCE. JUDGE ADMITS DIFFICULTY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night. The Supreme Court was engaged to-day with a case in which Albert Edmond Bourgeois was charged with manslaughter, arising from a collision between accused’s motor car and a gig. Kathleen Joyce Brown was thrown from the gig and fatally injured. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and added a strong recommendation to mercy, on the ground of the bad light on the gig and the state of the weather. Mr. Justice Reed referred to newspaper comments on his action at Napier in granting probation in a similar kind of ease, and he remarked that it was difficult to know what to do. He would like to give effect to the jury’s recommendation, but would require evidence as to accused’s reputation as a motor driver. He deferred sentence till Thursday, and accused was liberated without bail.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1922, Page 4
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152GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER. Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1922, Page 4
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