INTOXICATED CASES
MEDICAL TESTS UNRELIABLE. A MAGISTRATE’S VIEWS. . (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, April 21. Holding that a medical certificate in a charge of intoxication preferred against John Gibson Cook (29), motor driver, of Te Awamutu, was not evidence, the magistrate, Mr S. L. Paterson, dismissed the charge at the Hamilton Magistrates’ Court. Intoxication was not a matter of tests, said Mr Paterson. The 'British Medical Association had expressed the opinion that an experienced police officer was as capable of judging if a person was intoxicated as was any medical officer, unless there were pathological reasons for intoxication. It was on record that a man known to be intoxicated had pulled himself together for a medical test, passed it, and then collapsed. He recalled a case in which a man was arrested for straight-out drunkenness. A doctor had certified him as sober, but during the night the man was. takqn . to. hospital with alcoholic poisoning. , It was a further proof of the unreliable nature of tests for intoxication.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1939, Page 5
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