SERIOUS CHARGES
CASES AT HAMILTON (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, Wednesday. ‘ I have taken into consideration the fact that you have made a clean breast of the whole affair, but the law has made it an absolute prohibition to know girls under the age of 16 illegally,” said Mr. Justice Blair in the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day in sentencing James Corrin, a married man, to a month’s imprisonment. Corrin pleaded guilty to a charge of illegally knowing a girl of 14 years. Mr. J. F. Strang, for defendant, said the girl had looked more than her age, and had actually told the prisoner she was 18 and he was deceived by this.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 380, 14 June 1928, Page 16
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