SUPREME COURT
PRISONERS SENTENCED
■ Four prisoners, who had pleaded guilty to ofrences in the Lower Court, appeared before His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Kobert Stout) in the Supreme Court yesterday inorning. Mr. 1\ S. K. Macasscy, oi the Crown Law Office, appeared for* the Crown.
lor theft of a motor-cycle at Motueka, a young man named Harold Stanley Levens Slutter, v. - as. sentenced to a year's imprisonment, ]>ut His Honour said that he would recommend that the prisoner be committed to a reformatory institution cor a term.
Wilfred Gregory Gibson M'Kinnon hiul to answer, for theft committed at FeiUling ana for forgery at Timaru. He was sentenced to reformative treatment for eighteen months.
An old woman, named Elizabeth Bus. «ell J against whom there were numerous previous convictions, was sent to gaol for eighteen, months for uttering a military pay document which she knew to bo forged.
Edward Charles O'Hagen, whose crime was breaking and entering and theft at Feuding, was discharged as he was reported to be of weak intellect. His Honour said that Jf the police thought proper" they could have O'Hasen brought up and treated as of unsound mind.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2760, 2 May 1916, Page 9
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193SUPREME COURT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2760, 2 May 1916, Page 9
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