PLEA AVAILS
PRISONER AT SUPREME COURT. NOT DECLARED HABITUAL. GUILTY OF HOUSE-BREAKING.. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. A brief but moving plea from the dock, after his counsel had spoken on his behalf and as Mr Justice Ostler was about to pass sentence upon him in the Supreme Court, saved Mervyn John Cud by from being declared an habitual criminal. With his brother Arthur Cudby, he appeared for _sentence on five charges of house-breaking, to which Arthur, near the end of the trial, had dramatically pleaded guilty on Thursday, and in which Mervyn was found guilty by the jury. This morning each pleaded guilty to four other charges of house-breaking and to a charge of having been found unlawfully in possession ot house-break-ing instruments. Mr Justice Ostler, although he had just previously expressed intention of doing so, refrained from declaring Mervyn an habitual and ordered reformative detention for period not exceeding four years. Arthur Cudby was sentenced to reformative treatment for a. period not exceeding three years.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 14, 27 October 1934, Page 6
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