THEFT OF CLOTHING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 45, 23 February 1938, Page 8

THEFT OF CLOTHING.

YOUNG OFFENDER SENTENCED

COUNSEL'S APPLICATION REFUSED.

James Davidson Ireland, aged 22 (Mr. J. J. Sullivan), who had been found guilty at tnc recent criminal sessions on two charges of receiving clothing knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained, was brought before Mr. Justice Fair for sentence in the Supreme Court to-day. This was the case in which Mr. Sulliasked the Court to state a case for the Court of Appeal, contending that the identification of the accused at an identification parade was not evidence because the witnesses had previously been shown a photograph or photographs of the accused. Mr. Sullivan's application was refused. Honor, in passing sentence, said that in 1936 Ireland was convicted of theft from a dwelling and admitted to probation. In less than three months he had been convicted on 17" charges of breaking and entering and theft. While it was sad to see a young man in the position accused was in, the property of the people had to be protected. Accused would be sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each of the two charges, the sentences to be cumulative.