YOUTH’S LEG GASHED WITH PEN-KNIFE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 1

YOUTH’S LEG GASHED WITH PEN-KNIFE

BOY SENT TO BORSTAL

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT Two years at the Borstal Institute was the sentence imposed by Mr. Justice Biair in the Supreme Court this morning on a youth cf 17 who had pleaded guilty to stabbing a companion in the leg with a penknife. Grand Jury had found a true bill on an indictment of assault causing act,ujil bodily harm. The youth admitted the assault and causing a wound, but denied intent to hurt the oilier. . ■’ ;• Prisoner’s name was suppressed, as it was in The Police Court. On prisoner’s behalf Mr. Allan Moody said that the young fellow had been provoked ■ when his companion struck him. with a. fishing rod. Court sel said the case had given him much anxious thought. - There was no doubt the. youth, had lost control of himself. Mr. Moody asked leniency. In passing sentence, his Honour said he realised prisoner had not meant to inflict the injury he had caused. He wished the youth not to regard a term of Borstal as a punishment but as a means of helping him to help himself in the direction of becoming a worthy citizen. The charge of intent was dismissed.