Jail Term For Striking Sergeant

Grey River Argus, 11 October 1948, Page 8

Jail Term For Striking Sergeant

For assaulting a senior-sergeant ol PuAice ui utahunu on the mgnt ol Saturday, September 25, Anthony maxweu Margin, aged 2u,-a imjuurer, v, c.s to-day sentenced to one month's imprisonment with Hard iauour. beniur-Bergeant Joseph McGrath lout the Magistrate, Mr H. j. Wily, that tlie accused was pursuing ms oare-looteci wile along the roadway. i told him who 1 was,” witness saiu. Without warning, he struck we with ms ciencheci list. Knocking me to the grounu and bruising my leit jaw. i .osa and secured him. He broke away and shuck me a vicious blow, naeiUimg my nose. " r washed a torch to identify him. he took a bottle 01 beer from ijbciv.cn and said, 'Come on, cop-

per. Witness took the accused to the police station, where Margin again attacked him. The accused had had some beer, but was .■■. or intoxicated. Defence counsel said the accused had been to a iamil?/ party and had taken too much beer. He was willing to take out a pronibiton order. The Magistrate said the accused was not yet 21 and was legally forbidden to enter hotels.

Replying to a request for probation, the Magistrate said: “Probation is not available in cases of this nature. It was a particularly vicious assault.”