LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 520, 29 May 1909, Page 15

LAW REPORTS.

SUPREME COURT. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ORDERED. Before Mr. Justice Cooper yesterday a pale, shabbily-dressed boy named Donis Eiohard Dane, aged fourteen" yoars, who bad ploaded guilty to a gravo offence, was again 6et forward for sentence. In order that information might bo obtained ae to whethor Miy of the industrial schools contained prorision for tho accommodation of boys with jriminal tendencies, sentence had on a prerious occasion been deferred β-ddreesing the' prisoner his Honour said: iours is a very bad case, and I think it an oxceedrngly proper one in which you should be whipped. Now, a whipping is not a flogging, but it will arouse in you some sense of tao gravity of tho flagrant crime which you committed. It may Dβ that it is not entirely your own fault, or evidently you havo ,beon badly brought.up. I have beon informed that yeu can neither read nor write, and'that other members of your family havo been convicted of crime. His Honour ordered that tho lad bo sent to gaol for oho month (but to be kept apart from other prisoners), and bo whipped to the, oxtent of ten strokes, and, l at tho expiration of the sentence, that he bo kept at tho Burnham Industrial School (where provision is made for tho accommodation of criminal lads) until ho reached the age of twenty-ono years. "It almost seems ridiculous to ask tho religion to which such a lad belongs," added his Honour. i ; In reply, the governor of tho Terrace Gaol said that the lad's people belonged to tho Church of England. A'His Honour then mado an order that tho lad should be brought op in the faith of the Church of England.