SUPREME COURT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
AUCKLAND, Dec. 3
At the Supreme Court, Justice Fraser sentenced Frederick Thomas Kelly Ma v for brutal offences on a woman, aged Go, at llamarama and on a girl of 13 years at AY altera, to ten years imprisonment with hard labour on each of the two charges of rape, sentences to be concurrent. On a charge of theft by menace. May was sentenced to seven years imprisonment concurrent with previous sentence. His Honour said the circumstances of each of the more serious cases indicated gross violence, when the victim was absolutely helpless and beyond the reach of any assistance. But for the possibility that the prisoner was mentally subnormal, it would have been his duty to order that ho be flogged.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1928, Page 6
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127SUPREME COURT. Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1928, Page 6
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