SUPREME COURT.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 25. At the Supreme Court, a sentence of three years reformative detention, to "be concurrent with a term he isi now serving, was imposed on tlic solicitor, John Herbert Victor ’Mansill, by Justice MacGregor on a charge of forging a memorandum of mortgage for £6OO and causing it to be acted ■upon as genuine. Mansill is at present serving a sentonce of four years reformative detention. It was stated that this forgery was one of those acts incidental to misappropriation, for which Mansill previously had been tried and sentenced. Meredith (Crown Solicitor) said the real reason for the charge was to assist civil action for tho removal of a transfer from the register. His Honour said had this charge been brought before Justice Blair when the other charges were he V- “thought tho sentence would have been * heavier.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1928, Page 3
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146SUPREME COURT. Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1928, Page 3
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