CONSTABLE ASSAULTED,
DRUNKEN MAN'S OFFENCE.
COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE.
UNIFORM MUST BE RESPECTED,
A sentence of fourteen days' imprisonment was imposed on Samuel Robert' Campbell this morning by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court on a charge of assaulting Constable Taylor yesterday. On a further charge of being disorderly while drunk in Syiuonds Street, accused was convicted and discharged. Accused said that he did not remember anything about the assault. Constable Taylor stated that when he went to arrest Campbell for behaving in a disorderly manner the latter resisted violently and managed to jump on a tram car. He later punched and kicked' witness, who had difficulty in clasping the handcuffs on. ,•
Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that there was nothing else known against Campbell. When the sentence was imposed, Campbell asked the magistrate if he could be fined instead.
Mr. Hunt: No. You are not going iibo be allowed to assault" constables like this. You will have to learn to have some respect for constables and the uniform.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 247, 18 October 1928, Page 10
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