SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1925, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

[nv Tt’i.unaArn —run viikss association.] RRISUN'ERS SENTENCED. WELLINGTON. Sept. 1 E At tiie Supreme Court to-day. .1 n~t ire MacGregor sentenced t ile following prisoners, who pleaded guilty in t lie Lower Court -

Marcus Stapelteu and Allred Motif ley, attempted rape, relormat ive do tent ion for ( wi> years.

William Henry Gibbons. eighteen months' imprisonment, tor i.heit. Cliarles Eiuehaiu, aged • >O. bigamy, was sentenced to imprisonment till the rising of the Court, and to pay the cost s of the prosecution. The ease was quite unusual, and there were circumstances which inclined the judge in leniency. Counsel for prisoner said Unit the latter had pleaded guilty, and had then sought to withdraw the pica, lie (M.-ed the Judge to take the course taken hv .1 list ice [h.-skiug: in 1919, who hud field that the Court could not sei aside or quash a plea of guilty, because the depositions did not justify the nlfeiiee charged. Counsel asked the Judge to convict the prisoner, and to set idm free at the rising ol tlm ( oiirl. His I Inner said that the legal position was clear. Taking the man's mild infirmity, and the laet Wei Johad keen ill gaol for some weeks, he would order his imprisonment till the rising of tho Court.