SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1917, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

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WELLINGTON, Nov. 12

At the Supreme Court sittings, the Chief Justice remarked that there was great need that our laws should lie altered. He hoped the time would come son when prisoners will he paid for the work they do in gaol, the money to go t<> the wives and families, who often are the real sufferers.

Robert Irwin Mac Loan, who pleaded guilty on throe charges of uttering, was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, to run concurrently with the sentence the prisoner is now serving. . He was also declared an habitual criminal.

•JamesO’Connell, guilty of theft from the person, was admitted two years’ probation, on condition that for two years he lives in ;i no license district, takes no liquor, anti uses no tobacco. Nicholas Curran, for committing an indecent. act was sentenced to nine months.

George Harris for forging and uttering will he sentenced to three years’ reformative detention.

Thomas Aquinaee .Murphy for carnally knowing a Maori girl under 16 years was sentenced to fifteen months. In the ease of Herbert. William Gough, found guilty of common assault mi a young girl, the Chief Justice said lie would not send the prisoner to gaol on account of his health. The prisoner would be Jet go provided he remained in the country two years, during which time he must not visit any town, smoko- cigarettes, or take intoxicating liquors.

Frederick “Rodger, who pleaded guilty to tlie theft to lodge funds was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment.

A lad named Richard Thomas Davis, who pleaded guilty to breaking, entering and theft, was allowed his liberty, conditional on returning to Worn ran State Farm.