The Archive · 1920

Manslaughter

Y. P. Chang, 23, an accountant in a Shanghai bank, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of manslaughter in connexion with a motor car fatality Defendant was alleged to hav recklessly driven a car along North Tibet d. car knocked down a Chinese boy who was carrying a plank across the road and inflicted such injuries that the boy died shortly afterwards.

Defendant said that he was driving at a moderate speed and sounded his horn, and that the boy hesitated and stepped back in front of the car.

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