DOG'S WRONG AGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 150, 6 April 1933, Page 8

DOG'S WRONG AGE.

MAN'S FIRST OFFENCE. A sentence of two months' hard labour passed on a man who gave the wrong ago of his dog was the subject of a question in the House of Commons recently. The man sentenced was Samuel Thomas Lewis, aged 35, of Kastgate, Aberystwyth, and Mr Rhys Davies asked the Homo . Secretary whether ho would inquire into the case with a with of some remission of the sentence. Mr Oliver Stanley, Under-Secretary of State, said that attention had not previously been called to the case. He was having inquiries made. Lewis was sentenced at the recent Carmarthenshire Assizes for making the false statement in a dog license case heard before the Aberystwyth magistrates on. January 18. It was pleaded in his defence that Lewis had a Wife and five children and was in poor circumstances. The dog was six months old in December, and he thought it hard that he should have to take out a license then and another in January. "A great deal too much perjury is committed in these small matters," said Mr Justice Goddard, passing sentence, "and it is time that it is understood that people committing perjury on their own behalf are committing crime, just as much as if they were doing so when called as a witness for somebody else." It is understood that this was Lewis' first offence.