NO CRIMINAL INTENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 441, 24 August 1928, Page 1

NO CRIMINAL INTENT

BANKRUPT S DEBTS TO COME UP FOR SENTENCE IN SIX MONTHS % Alan Stewart Blackie, who pleaded guilty at the Police Court yesterday to five charges of incurring debts over £2O, being a person adjudged a bankrupt and not having obtained an absolute order ! of discharge, was this mornmg ordered to come up for sentence in six months.

This case has occasioned me no little difficulty,” said Mr. W. R. Mcis'ean > S.M., ‘‘because the offences were committed, though, had Blackie apPhed to the Supreme Court at the appropriate time, he would probably Kt 8 * received his discharge. He has ootamed credit without disclosing the •Jt that he is a bankrupt. Blackie has already served a term probation and the probation officer’s r t shows him to have been an ergetic worker. His bankruptcy is him V 5 m^ sfor tune, but I am punishing cha r ° r t^le offences with which he is

ah h© comes up for sentence I tripfl ons^er whether or not he has P alce some Payment to his BlaoiH Hubble suggested that As«f» e should consult the Official as nee before making any payment, affaira of the estate were rather defendant having been twice },- bankrupt. “It is hardly fair.” be r • ’ tJlat the later creditors should B]nr»v! m^ urse<3 while those to whom g* r , Kie owed money, when he was n °thing a<ie bankrupt in 1921, received *ha?\ c^ean concluded by saying +v Was satisfied Blackie’s action he result of no criminal intent.