THE COURTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19162, 19 November 1927, Page 9

THE COURTS.

SUPREME COURT. '.Before his Honour Mr Jusicc Adams.) PRISONERS SENTENCED. William Roy Macdonald. who was found guily of the theft of £215 of the funds of the Guardian Insurance Company, was admitted to probation for a period of three years. The special conditions were that ho paid the cost of the prosecution, £Uo ISs. took out n prohibition order against himself, and abstained entirely from gambling. Samuel Phoenix Briggs, law clerk, found guilty of stealing £037 from a trust account, was admitted to probation for three years. He was also ordered to take out a prohibition order against himself, and to abstain from cambling. Archibald Swain, who had been found guilty of forgery and attempting to obtain money by false "pretences, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. His Honour said that the act of stealing the boat ticket was a mean one against a man who had befriended him. , , ■Leslie Stanniford Willetts, who had pleaded guilty to two charges of breaking and entering, and also tp four charges of theft, was ordered to be detained for reformative .treatment in the Borstal Institute for a period ot three years. „ For the theft of a bicycle. Alexander rrancis Robinson, with seventeen convictions, already against him, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. ~ The need for Frank Rissell, found guilt} of indecent exposure and obscene language, to be put under proper restraint was emphasised by the Crown Prosecutor, and he was sentenced to three -rears' imprisonment. In sentencing William McKay to two years imprisonment for forgery at Greymouth and Timaru, his Honour threatened to declare him an habitual criminal if ho came bcrore the Court again. . Reformative treatment for a period not exceeding two years was ordered the case 01 Percy Greaves, alias fereno Kinwi. wno pleaded guilty in the Magistrate s Court at Timaru to charges of • housebreaking ana Herbert William Carey came up for•sentence on a charge of arson. Mr Donne 1> said there was no question that the prisoner was a mental defective. . Carey was remanded for fourteen days in order that he Minister for Justice might be communicated W, Anker Jakob Carlo Jensen f assault, was admitted to probation .for twebe months on condition that he paid the cos of the prosecution, -"20, ook out a Hon order acainst himself, and handed the rest of his SO7 back to his wife.