LAW REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2577, 27 September 1915, Page 9

LAW REPORTS

SUPREME COURT FOUR PRISONERS SENTENCED SOLDIER CIVEN A CHANCE. Four prisoners, who had pleaded •guilty to different) oifcnces, 'appeared for sentence before His Honour' the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) in the Supreme Court on Saturday morning. Sir. P. S. K. Macassey, of tlio Crown Law OSice, represented tho Crown., Herbert Edward Lodge had to answer for intent to-defraud tlie Horowhenua County Council by. omitting to enter particulars of . amounts received for rates. Prisoner appeared in dock in the King's -uniform, having been arrested at one of tlie camps where ho was being trained with the New Zealand Reinforcements. ' / Mr. M. Myers,' on behalf of t'he prisoner, drew His. Honour's attention to the fact that tlie deficiency had been made good before tlie prosecution. Lodge had joined the forces before the prosecution, and would have gone with the Main Body bht for domestic ties. 1 His Honour ordered the prisoner to come up for sentence when called npon.

FIVE YEARS' HARD LABOUR, John William Presling was sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of indecent' assault.' THE ELTHAM CASE. ■William Keith and Samuel White ivere placed in the dock together. They had admitted a , charge of attempted breaking and entering at Eltham, where a tunnel was made under a bankinghouse and under AVilkiuson's store. Mr. T. Young, wlio appeared for White, attributed his client's lapse to a sudden outburst of crime, _ coupled ivitli a fascination for tunnelling. • His Honour imposed a sentience of tjvo years' imprisonment with hard labour in each case, recommending, that h lute be sent to the tree-planting camp at Waipa, and Keitlr to Kningaroa.