SUPREME COURT.
CRIMINAL BUSINESS. NINE MONTHS FOE BIGAMT.' Sontonco'was passed by Mr. Justice Cooper yesterday on James Archer Crooks, who hail pleaded guilty to a charge of having committed bigamy. . It was mentioned by his Honour that the report of the Probation Officer was not favourable to prisoner. Mr. D. M. Findlay, who appeared on behalf'of prisoner, asked that lonicncy bo extended. His Honour said that prisoner deserted his legal 'wife and six children (two or three of whom were very young) at Dannovirko. Within a short period,, at Millerton', on tho West Coast, he married another woman, by whom he had several children. Unless special circumstances .wcre_ presented, it was impossible to grant probation in such a case. Ho would order prisoner to be imprisoned , for nino months with hard labour. ~
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 11
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132SUPREME COURT. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 11
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