SUPREME COURT.
A CASE OF ARSON. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. A case in which the question of the class of ofience in which probation may be granted came before Mr. Justice Cooper in the Supreme Court to-day. A young man aged 18,- Joseph Stanley, who had pleaded guilty at Wanganui to a charge of arson, setting fire to a haystack, was placed in the dock for sentence. Mr. Justice Cooper said he had consulted other judges, who agreed with him in the opinion he had expressed at Wanganui that it was not a case for probation. Prisoner was of somewhat weak intellect, but knew the difference between right and wron<j. Where a prisoner had deliberately set fir-e to property belonging to another person, and did so from a motive of revenge, it was not in the interests of the public that that person should lie allowed liberty without some period of disciplinary treatment. Prisoner was committed to Invercargill prison for disciplinary treatment and reformative purposes for a period not exceeding three years.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 50, 17 July 1912, Page 5
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173SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 50, 17 July 1912, Page 5
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