SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1933, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

SENTENCES AT CHRISTCHURCH

THEFT, ASSAULT AND FORGERY

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CHRISTCHURCH, February 12

At the Supreme Court sentences as follows i'er-e (imposed by Judge Reed; . Horace Joseph C''ofts, aged twenty, for carnal knowledge, was' cpnvicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within a year. Thomas John Morris, for shopbreaking with' theft and receiving, was sentenced to twelve months’ reformative. Cedric Charles K'iddey, for attempted housebreaking and theft, was given two years’ Borstal. detention. Charles Edwards, for sending a false telegram, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. Archibald William McCorkjndale, for theft, was given twelve months’ reformative treatment.

Walter Thomas, for forgery, was admitted to two years’ probation. Wallace Percy Father, for indecent assault, was sentenced to two years’.

Charles Edgar McPeak, for theft of thirteen hundred sterling, was Sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment by Judge Reed.

Ivy, Myra'Goodwin, a married woman, aged twenty-five, wag sentenced to a month’s hard labour for receiving stolen goods. Judge Reed said 'it was time to call a halt in the extension of probation in eases of thefts from shops and stores.

CONVICTIONS AT DUNEDIN

DUNEDIN, February 10.

Tn the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Kennedy, J. Cecil. Stacey Barker, for breaking and entering a dwelling, was ordered three years’ reformative detention.

Hector Rutherford Mitchell, a youth for attempted earn ail knowledge of a girl under the age of 16, wa 6 sentenced to three and a half years in the Borstal Institute. A girl, 18 years of age, on a charge of concealment of the b'l'th of her child, \va*s ordered to come up fo r sentence at any time within two years. The girl’s name was suppressed.

WELLINGTON DIVORCE GRANTED

WELLINGTON, February ll

A decree nisi was granted by Chief Justice Myers, in each of two petitions for divorce, closely inter-related, turning upon the single issue, which we r e heard in the past two days in the Supreme Court. In each petition, the allegation was adultery, and the jury required only a quarter of an hour or so, to decide that the allegations had been os tab ills bed.

Margaret Jean Gunter was petitioner in one case, and her husband William Gunter, was respondent. In the other, Sidney "Alexander Johnson was petitioner, and his wife, Alice Maud Johnson was respondent, the cO-tpg-pondent being W'Jliam Gunter.