SUPREME COURT

Southland Times, Issue 18829, 24 May 1920, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 22. At the Supreme Court two Maoris, Paul Tone and Hori Penetito, for assault on a European at Teteko, were sentenced, Tene to 12 months’ reformative treatment, while Penetito was fined £ls and ordered to pay £lO towards the cost of the prosecution. In reply to counsel for Tene, Mr Justice Chapman said; “I have never seen my way to overlook a brutal assault in which a man has been injured. I always give imprisonment in such cases. This is not an arbitrary' rule and the necessity for it has been proved over and over again. I do not wish to interfere with others who administer justice, but I sometimes think that some magistrates are too lenient in dealing with drunken assaults. I do not mention any names, indeed I could nor recall them if I tried, ‘nut as I say, 1 fc-r-1 that such cases arc often too leniently dealt with.” Thomas Forcival McQuillan, for theft, in the Rotorua district, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour and was declared an habitual criminal. He had a long list of previous offences. V/ircmn Rnna, also with u bad record, who is already serving a year’s imprisonment with hard labour and not more than four years’ reformative treatment, was sentenced to a similar period for the theft of a horse from a relative, thus adding a few months to his term of incarceration.