TWO MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT
MEEHAN SENTENCED FOR ASSAULT. ACQUITTED ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE. | (By Telegraph—Press Association.) . DUNEDIN, February 6. "His present predicament is due to a misguided excess of patriotism." said Mr C. S. Thomas, his counsel, when William Meehan, acquitted by a jury yesterday on an attempted murder charge, but convicted of assault, appeared before Mr Justice Kennedy today for sentence. Meehan was 43 years of age. and a married man with a family of five, counsel said. His previous record as a citizen was unblemished. He served two years in the Great War and at the outbreak of the present one had volunteered with the National Reserve for service either at home or overseas. , Meehan had been nearly four monthsi in prison and counsel asked his Hon- '
our to take this fact into consider; 1 .-1 tion. The judge said that such an assault i could not be 100 strongly condemned. 1 In view of the lime prisoner had already been in custody the sentence of the court would be two months’ hard labour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 2
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