SUPREME COURT.
“PESTS TO SOCIETY,” Per Press Association. Wanganui t May 23. At the Supreme Court to-day, Cornelius Trainer and William Murray were sentenced to 18 months’ hard labor, to be followed by detention for not exceeding two years’ reformative treatment for robbery, accompanied by violence, from a man under the influence of drink. The jury expressed appreciation of the action of Constable Johnston, who single-handed, arrested the two prisoners shortly after the crime. The jury also commented on the fact that the prisoners were not defended by counsel. Mr Justice Edwards said a Judge would always assign counsel where there was a possibility of a just verdict of not guilty not being returned. Both prisoners had bad records and in those circumstances be did not feel justified in spending public funds on ,their defence. They were pests to society.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 42, 24 May 1916, Page 2
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140SUPREME COURT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 42, 24 May 1916, Page 2
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