FOUND GUILTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 8

FOUND GUILTY.

PORIRUA ASSAULT CHARGE. JURY RECOMMENDS MERCY. DETENTION" FOK TWO YEAES. (By Tck'SMjHi.— l'ri-s* Association.) WELLINGTON", Tuesday. Found guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, oil a. charge of having assaulted a patient at the l'orirua Mental Hospital, Henry Dixoti Tyrer, a former attendant at the ln-titution, was sentenced by Mr. .lu-ii<e Jlerdman in the Supreme Court, to-day to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by a period of reformative detention not exceeding 12 months. »Tyrer, who stood two trials in the Siipivnio Court, the fir>t jury having failed to aurce. was charged with having, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. caused actual bodily harm to one of the patients. Alternatively be was charged with assault m> as to can-e actual bodily harm. v. iili striking, wounding, or llltreuling a menliil defective while noting as an attendant. The jury's verdict wan not guilty on the lir>t eiuml. Inn iMiilty on the second, with a reeonmieiicbition to mercy. The third count was withdrawn. Hi... Honor »airi he thoroughly agreed with the verdict. "Ynti have heen convicted of an oll'ciice of gravity/' he added, addressing pi-isoncr. "a nil have committed a. very brutal on one of those mifort nnate whoin it was your duty to protect. I .-hall give effect to the recommendation of the jury, but [ have a duty to perform to tin- public. I shall -euiciice \><u to 12 months" hard labour, to be followed by a. period of reformative detention not exceeding 12 niontlif.' .