SUPREME COURT
A MAXIMUM SENTENCE. By Telegraph —Press Association. Timaru, Last Night. The Supreme Court opened to-day, before Mr. Justice Denniston. There were only two criminal cases for trial, and one for sentence, and the Judge congratulated the grand jury on the shortness of the list. J. W. Sadler, who had admitted sixteen charges of falsifying railway receipts for freight charges he had paid as a-carter, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. Thos. Jackson Smith, aged thirty, convicted of keeping a brothel, received the maximum sentence of two years' imprisonment, and the circumstances being, in the eyes of "the Judge, particularly bad, His Honor expressed regret that he could not make the sentence heavier. A second charge of robbing a visitor of £24 failed through insufficient evidence. Smith's wife will be charged to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 291, 5 June 1912, Page 5
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133SUPREME COURT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 291, 5 June 1912, Page 5
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