GRANTED PROBATI

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 433, 18 January 1933, Page 4

GRANTED PROBATI

ASSAILANT IN ASSAULTCi DEALT WITH BY COURT i When Mansell James Jones taxidermist, of Rotorua, came o sentence before Mr. S. L. Pate S.M., yesterday morning on cb of common assault and of beit rogue and a vagabond, the 11 trate admitted him to probatioi three years, a condition being he took out a prohibition ordei paid the medical expenses of ti saulted man, Thomas Mc amounting* to £1 2s 6d within teen days. On the charge of being arogn a vagabond hq was convicted an charged. 1 In sentencing accused the 1 said that he was prepared to a counsel's statement that Jones not intentionally carried the wi which was apparently one used i business as a taxidermist. Hi thought that it was deliberatek ried he would have sentencedj a term of imprisonment. Also he not held the opinion that a time Jones was hardly respoi for his actions he would have sent to gaol. Jones should renn that only recently a learned had, in somewhat similar ci stances, sent a man to prison foi years. Jones was lucky that hi not facing the more serious chai murder, and it was only under I dence that this was not the cas No man, said the Bench ha right to take the law into his hands and Jones had constituted self judge, jury and executioner could not be allowed. j