YOUNG MAN’S CRIME
TO BE MEDICALLY EXAMINED “This case is an extremely sad one,” said Mr. J. J. Sullivan in the Supreme Court this morning in pleading for Claude Albert Johnson, 21, who had pleaded guilty to incest .t Xetherton. Addressing Mr. Justice Smith, counsel said that prisoner was not entirely to blame. Several members of the family were mentally weak and the sister hardly knew right from wrong. The young man should be protected from himself rather than punished. Mr. Sullivan asked that the case be held over for a fortnight so that prisoner might be medically examined. Mr. V. N. Hubble, for the Crown, had no objection. He knew that prisoner’s family history was as Mr. Sullivan said. His Honour deferred sentence for two weeks, pending a medical report.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 12
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131YOUNG MAN’S CRIME Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 473, 1 October 1928, Page 12
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