“Acquittal Would Have Been Scandal"
FINE OF £2OO SHADY MOTOR DEAL Press Association DUNEDIN, To-day. In the Supreme Court Henry Emmett Shiel, 26, married, and Stanley Kitchener Barnett, 22, who were found guilty on charges of false pretences, forgery and conspiracy in connection with a motor-car deal, came up for sentence. Mr. Justice Reed said Shiel thought he was doing a smart thing and something the law could not catch him on. It would be regrettable if the law could not catch him. It would have been a judicial scandal had the jury, by a verdict of not guilty, proclaimed to the Dominion that such acts were justified in a business transaction.
Shiel was fined £2OO, with an alternative of six months’ gaol. Barnett, whom the judge looked upon as a tool, was admitted to two years’ probation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 39, 9 May 1927, Page 12
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