SUPREME COURT
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
WELLINGTON, November 1
On charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, breaking, entering, and theft, and being found by night in possession of housebreaking implements, Laurence Desmond Tanner, aged 20, out on license from Borstal Institution at Invercargill, was ordered to be detained at Borstal for a period not exceeding three years.
George Albert Proud foot, aged 23, found guilty of breaking, entering, and theft, with a recommendation to two years’ probation and ordered to pay costs.
John Peris, for indecent assault on a male, to two rear.s’ hard.
Half way through the Crown case against Charles Sender, charged with receiving a quantity of jewellery valued at C 27, knowing it to have been .dishonestly obtained, the Chief Justice directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. This was done and the prisoner was discharged.
TW() VE A R-S RFE OR AIA TI YE
PALMERSTON X.. Nov. 1. “T 1,.,,*,, been a big fool and suppose deserve all I got and am prepared to take it.’’ said Victor James Jamieson, in the -Supreme Court, when be a'-eared for sentence on a ebargo of theft from, a store at Kelvin Grove. The Crown Prosecutor said accused had not a good record.
Justice Blair imposed a sentence of two years reformative detention concurrent with the present sentence of eighteen months detention,
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