SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1930, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

SEXUAL OFFENDERS

CONTRAST IN SENTENCES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

DUNEDIN, May 2,

In the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice Kennedy David Thompson,, who had pleaded guilty to a choree of carnal knowledge, the sum of £2O, or in default, two months’ hard labour,

John Joseph Whitty, for attempted carnal knowledge and indecent assault, the offences being committed in 1927, was ordered two years’ de tention in the Borstal Institute,

Colin Raymond Wills, for indecent assault on a female, was committed to the Borstal fr two years. John Teer Patterson received a sentence of two years’ reformative detention for attempted carnal knowledge of a girl nine years.

DUNEDIN THEFTS.

FOUR PRISONERS SENTENCED

DUNEDIN, May 2

James Robert Stanley Sutherland and George Frederick Sargeant, were at the Supreme Court sentenced for breaking, entering and theft. Suther-. land received two years in the Borstal. Sargeant, on account of his vouch, ’-ns placed on probation for three years.

William Robert Gibson, an ex-stu-dent, for breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, was placed on probation, and was ordered to pay the cents of the trial.

Albert Robert Wilooxsen, for breaking, entering, and theft, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention.