PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 122, 22 May 1920, Page 7

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

IMPRISONMENT TOB ASSAULT.

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Half-a-dozen prisonere came before Mr. Justice Chapman tola morning at the Supreme Court for sentence. Hon. J. A. Tots, X.-., appeared for the Crown. Two Maoris, Paul Tone and ■ Hori Penetito, appeared Cor sentence as the result of aa -ssualt on a European named Chamberlain ait Te Teko. Tenc bad pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm and Penetito had been convicted of common assault.

In reply to Mr. A. H. Johnstone (for Tone) his Honor said: *"I have never seen my way to overlook a brutal assault in which a man has been injured. I always give imprisonment in such cases. This is not an arbitrary rule, and the necessity for it ba» been proved over and over again. Ido not wish to interfere wifcb others who administer justice, but I sometimes think that some magistrates are too lenient in dealing with drunken assaults. I do not mention any names; indeed- could not recall them if 1 tried, but, as I say, I feel that such cases are often too leniently dealt with." Bis Honor, In sentencing Ten*, said that Chamberlain received five wounds on bis bead, and might have been injured for life, The prisoner would be sentenced to twelve months* reformative treatment at I_verc_Tg__ Penetito was (fined £15, and ordered to pay £10 towards the coats of the prosecution within one month.

Peter Peke, _ Niue Islander, formerly chief cook on the #_. Waipori, wa» given four months' hard labour for assaulting his assistant, an old man, ao as ib cause him actual bodily harm. Mr. Allan Moody appeared for the prisoner. GIVEN! A CHANCE. ' ! Three yean' informal probation was recommended try the probation officer t(Rev IF. R. Jeffreys) for William John Marriott, who bad pleaded guilty to theft, false pretences, and fraud- Mr. R. P. Towle, for tbe prisoner, said that his present offence appeared to be due to drink and to trouble with his wife, from whom he was asperated." H» Honor ordered Marriott to come up for sentence when called on, and imposed a number of conditions in regard to his future conduct, tho probation officer undertaking to see that they were observed. TWO BAD CASES. Wirenra Sana, a Maori with a bad record for dishonesty and other offences, came up for stealing a horse belonging to a relative. ' As be wa» already serving a sentence of -twelve months' bard 'labour and not more than Jfour years' reformative treatment, hie Honor-merely repeated the sentence, stating that the effect -would _c that *ho : - mam /would eerve a few more months In The list of convictions against Tbwaas Percival 3£oQ__t__, who had been eon'Vioted' of stealing m quantity of miscellaneous good* from a resident of the 'Rotorua district, proved to be a long one, including seven thefts, and other convictions for breaking and entering, indecent assault, and drunkenness at various places «_d t_n_j -Lnce 10Q4. "There is only one course in a case Eke yO_rs F " eaid tbe judjrei-."you: wi!l_be I sentenced to three years'" hard labour ' and declared an habitual criminal."