Manslaughter Trial Starts

Manslaughter Trial Starts
On a charge of Motor Manslaughter J. Ramcharran yesterday appeared at the Assizes in Justice Bollers’ Court.
The Crown’s case, conducted by Mr. K. L. George, was that Ramcharran was driving a car from the Carib Hotel in the early hours of the morning on April 29, 1958 when the car turned turtle into the trench at the Kitty Bend, Joyce Devonish, one of the occupants, died as a result of the accident. The others escaped with slight injuries.
Ramcharran is defended by Mr. L. F. S. Burnham.
Evidence led by the Crown is that there was a party of four in the car and after a spot of at the Good; they went to the Hotel Carib. It was while on their way back to the city that the car, a Gaevert, PA 97, turned turtle.
Source: The Daily Chronicle, Thursday, December 18, 1958: page 4.