BRUTAL ASSAULTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 204, 24 May 1920, Page 6

BRUTAL ASSAULTS

IMPRISONMENT THE PROPER PUNISHMENT SENTENCES AT AUCKLAND By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 22.. In the Supreme Court two MaorisPaul Teno and Hori Penetito—were sentenced for assaulting a European at To Teko. Tene received a sentence of 12 months' reformative treatment, and Penetito .was fined JBIS, and ordered to pay MO towards tho costs of the prosecution.

In reply to counsel for Tene, His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman said: "I have novel' seen my way to overlook a brutal assault in which a man has been injured. I always give imprisonment in such cases. This is not an arbitrary rule, and the necessity for it has been proved over and over again, I do not wish to interfere with others who administer justice, but I sometimes th'ink that some Magistrates are too lenient in dealing with drunken assaults. I do not mention any names—indeed, I could not recall them if I Wed—but as I say, I feel that such cases are often too leniently dealt with."

Thomas Percival M'Quillan, for theft in the Eotorua district, was sentenced to threo years' imprisonment, and was declared an habitual crini'inal. He had a long list of previous offences.

Wire Murana, who also had a bad record, and was already serving a year's imprisonment with hard labour, and not more than four years' reformative detention, was sentenced to a similar period for the theft of a horse from a relative, thus adding a few months to his term of incarceration.