SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

AX EXEMPLARY SENTENCE-

Four year?' imprisonment "J,* labour was the sentence imposed ». r Justice Reed in the Supreme day upon John Cuthbert had been found guilty of a - offence in respect of a girl uaW u age of 12 years. Young Maori's Offence. Committed from Rawene on • of attempted rape, a young a 0" L \ John Tohu. appeared for the Supreme Court to-day. vj; Mr. Blomfield submitted that u not a \ pry serious case. The * 0IB^ J1< ; an English name, but she was a Prisoner's offence as more or cto drink. v: Tohu iva- ordered to come i judgment it called upon. He flaordeied to pay the costs.

Sentence for ForgeryTwo years' reformative de * the sentence imposed at the - ■ Court to-day upon Bernard .„ Allan Cole, who had pleaded - four charges of forgery. c j s Accused had forged the » a V- % farmer by '.~hom he was emp . cashed the forged cheque. , K Asked ,v Mr. Justice Reed left his place of employment 0«" ; it was because he had two cbi thev were regarded as an enewjj ~ Hi? Hono: -aid be understood t : v,, -oi the c.-on. l-i.t the offered sc-:ne impertinence, an

, t ( oi p W been sentenced « , church tt» e years ago for thetts bank, where he ■was emplT