SUPREME COURT.
WELLINGTON SESSIONS.
Wellington, August 8
At the Supreme Court, Albert Edward Robinson and Henry Ronald •Campbell, were charged with assaulting and robbing a Hindu in an hotel bar. The jury acquitted Robinson and convicted Campbell of assault. Sentence was deferred. Isadore ! Mount was convicted of indecent assault. Sentence was deferred. Charles Hector Dudley was found guilty of forging and remanded for sentence, the Chief Justice remarking that accused had already been in goal for forging and been given the chance to reform on account of youth, but Dudley had no sooner been released than ho had offended again. Wellington, August 9. The Grand Jury, in a presentment to the Chief Justice, expressed the opinion that in addition to imprisonment in extreme cases of sexual offences, the penalty should lie of such a surgical nature as would prevent a repetition of such an offence.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 9, 9 August 1916, Page 8
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145SUPREME COURT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 9, 9 August 1916, Page 8
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