SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3035, 23 March 1917, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

PENALTY OF CRIME

THREE PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Tho Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, sentenced three prisoners yesterday morning. Mr. V. R. Meredith, Crown Prosecutor, appeared on behalf of the Crown. Thomas Francis Maloney, who pleaded guilty to forging a cheque for £40 125., asked to be allowed out on probation... , He said he would work to pay back the amount, and added that he had been drawn in the ballot, and ought to have been in the camp last month. ■ His Honour said ho'could-not allow probation. However, as it was a first offence, he would deal leniently with the prisoner. Malonoy was sentenced tq nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. Robert Gray came up for seutenco on a charge of escaping from lawful custody and (two ohargcs of theffc from'hotels. Prisoner had a long record of previous offences. _ His Honour inflicted a sentenco of sis months' impisonment on eaoh charge of theft and six months on -that of escaping from custody, the last sentence to be concurrent with the others. Prisoner was ordered to bo further detained for reformative treatment for three years. ' Duncan M'Millan Rao pleaded guilty to a charge of theft from a dwellinghouse at Feildins;. Mr. H. F. O'teary appeared for tho prisoner, and asked to have him placed on probation. _ The offence had. been committed /while prisoner was under the influence of liquor which he had taken while suffering from his teeth. The money had been restored. His Honour said he did riot consider that'the case was one for probation, as the prisoner had been suspected' of other offences. Ray was sentenced to sis months' imprisonment.