LENIENT SENTENCE
ON ACCOUNT OF JURY RECOMMENDATION. THREE YEARS’ REFORMATIVE DETENTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 13. Austin Ernest Prince was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention by Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court this morning. Yesterday afternoon a jury found Prince guilty of assault with intent to commit rape, and recommended leniency. On a charge of indecently assaulting a female, arising out of the same incident, he was found not guilty.
The Judge said Prince had accosted a girl and in ordinary cases of that kind long sentences of imprisonment were imposed. Eut for the recommendation of the jury, his Honour added, he would have given Prince five years’ imprisonment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1939, Page 3
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