HOPELESS CASE
“PUBLIC NUISANCE WITH 87 CONVICTIONS"
A vain plea for leniency was put up by Ernest Edward Cox, who, with 87 convictions to his discredit, came before the Supreme Court to-day to receive three years’ imprisonment for breaking, entry and theft. “If it please your Honour,” began Cox to Mr. Justice Smith, “I ask you for leniency whereby I may have a chance to lead a better life. I had been drinking heavy.” “Perfectly hopeless,” was the way the Crown Prosecutor described the case. Cox had 87 convictions for all classes of offences, from obscene language to resisting the police. “He is simply a nuisance to the public if left at large.”
His Honour said he was afraid the case was hopeless. It would be in the prisoner’s interest to have him in prison, where he might perhaps regain his self-control.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 502, 3 November 1928, Page 13
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142HOPELESS CASE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 502, 3 November 1928, Page 13
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