SUPREME COURT
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, March 24
A man who stole the till from a shop in Onehtinga, Charles Henry Cox, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment bv Judge Ostler in the Supreme Court. “You have had chance after chance,” said His Honor. “There is nothing for you except a. life in gaol, unless you can rely on.yourself not to commit cringes like, this, which was really a crime of .violence.”
Describing the case as a very unusual one, His Honor ordered John Hogg to come up for sentence v lien called upon. The prisoner was a young married man. He had pleaded guilty to a charge of carnally knowing a girl of 14 years of age. His Honor said it was very unusual to grant anything hut imprisonment for crime such as' the prisoner had pleaded guilty to, hut it was a very unusual case. Although only fourteen years of agq, the girl was ripe in knowledge and it was she who tempted the man.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1930, Page 3
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168SUPREME COURT Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1930, Page 3
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