EPILEPSY PLEA
INTOXICATED MOTORIST SENTENCE OF SEVEN DAYS’ GAOL (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Monday Sentencing a hotelkeeper, John Donald Shea, aged 4 ! G, to seven days’ Imprisonment in the Police Court today for intoxication while in charge of a car on August 10, Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., said he felt the method of imprisonment in such cases should be fully tested “t-o see if it would deal with this special evil.” Shea’s arrest followed a collision between his car and a motor-lorrv on tiic Waterfront Road. Tie pleaded not guilty last Friday when the magistrate reserved decision. The defence raised was that lie was suffering from an epileptic seizure, and medical evidence was called to show that he had been I rented for seizures over a period of * The magistrate said there was nothing in Ills medical history to suggest that this was in any special way responsible for his lapse.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20906, 11 September 1939, Page 11
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152EPILEPSY PLEA Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20906, 11 September 1939, Page 11
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