SUPREME COURT
WAIKATO CASES.
BY TUIiECBArH.— I’B.ESS ASSOCIATION
Hamilton, November 23.
The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened to-day, Mr. Justice Herdman presiding. In his charge to the grand jury, the Judge said that, generally speaking, he could compliment the district on the absence of serious crime. Five of the eight prisoners for trial are either half-castes cr Maoris. True bills were returned in all cases. Arthur Jeffrv Durant was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour on seven counts of issuing valueless cheques at Taiiniariinui. Leonard Edward Smith, formerly of New Plymouth, who escaped' from custody at W aikeria, where he was serving a term of two years’ reformative detention, had the Borstal sentence converted to 1months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 52, 25 November 1926, Page 17
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