PENALTIES FOR CRIME
Supreme Court Sentences A number of prisoners appeared before Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday for sentence. Arthur Alan Dillon, hairdresser, who was found guilty of two charges of mischief in entering rhe house where ins wife, from whom he was separated, was residing, and setting fire to a quantity of clothing, was admitted to probation for two years, on tlie special terms that he pays £2l/15/- to Mrs. Robertson, the occupier of tlie house, and £9/4/- to his wife, the value of the' clothing destroyed, and also pays the costs of the prosecution. Mr. A. H. Macandrew, in making a plea for leniency, said the jury bad add -d a rider that prisoner bad Acted uuder strong provocation. He was prepared to make restitution, and would keep away from his wife in future. Charles Wilcox, labourer, aged 00, wtis sentenced to three years’ reformative detention for indecent assault on a male at Napier. Leonard Albert Simmons, soldier ana cook, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at hard labour on each of two charges of breaking and entering a dwe.'linghouse by day and committing theft, the terms to be concurrent, and was warned that if he came before the Court again on a criminal charge he might be declared an habitual criminal.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 8
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218PENALTIES FOR CRIME Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 8
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