SUPREME COURT.
Wellington, May 8. At the Supreme Court to-day belore Mr Justice Chapman, James Henry Hope was set torward for sentence tor sly grogselling. Mr P. W. Jackson, prisoner’s council, urged that the crime of which Hope had been convicted was uot a crime against the person. His Honour: You are lecturing me upon a subject of which I have heard belore. Will you please say something about the case. Mr Jacksou urged that a flue would be sufficient punishment. His Honour (to prisoner): “You have only recently come to this country, and you appear to have set yourself deliberately to defy the laws.” Iu his service with the police in Australia, prisoner must have had experience ot sly grog-selling, and yet he had beeu three times convicted ot the otfence. Loafers appeared to resort to his shop, believing rhat the prisoner’s experience would enable him to successfully escape detection. His Honour could find no mitigating circumstances in the case. It ever there were a case for the maximum punishment this was one. Prisoner would be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1041, 9 May 1912, Page 3
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185SUPREME COURT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1041, 9 May 1912, Page 3
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