Police v Collins - [1967] NZLR 479

Criminal law — Offences — Summary proceedings — Amendment of charge on which defendant had elected summary trial — Amendment from one of causing death by reckless driving to one of causing death by driving in a manner dangerous to the public — Whether amendment gave defendant a further right to elect trial by jury — Transport Act 1962, s. 55 (1) (3) — Summary Proceedings Act 1957, ss. 43, 66.