CONVERION CHARGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 13

CONVERION CHARGE.

CAR TAKEN TO NAPIER. BLACKSMITH FOR SENTENCE. Before Mr. Justice Fair and a jurv rii.nlns XeNoi, ,r,,|in Rovoy. a b'lackMiiitli. aged 4(1. wa« ohaiired j n (ho Supreme. Court yesterday n fternoon "itli Ihe unlawful conver-'ion ~f a c ,u-, valued lit Clm, tlio |iro)>crty of Ernest l.i-tor, <raiii-.'i> proprietor. 'T]io Crown I'rocMruUji, Mr. V. l<. Meredith, appeared for the Crown and Mr. Noble conducted Hie defence. Lister said in evidence that arc-used, "■''•' ''l»i fl t<. Li- ;1 ,-,ir denier, pa Hutu hi* garaae with a wiiiinn on February 7. He. took a upeoial fanpy to a car, which he said he would not'cell, !>ut would keep for his own use. Ho gave an iiililrivs in Baseett Road. Koinuera. whom ho *aid lio was staying with relatives, and was allowed to take the car away with him. When tli« accused < 1 i<l not reappear inqiiirieri wore made and it was ascertained that Bnvey was not known at the address given. Nothing was said fihout Bovcy taking the car to Napier to sell it there for witnee*. Det.ertivn K. \V. Mills, of Napier, said ho found the car abandoned ill Thackeray Street. Napier, but it was Inter riMiinveil to a iia rn jrs?. When inter-viewe-l iiccuspd said bin name was Shaw and licit Bovey. Mr. Noble submitted it could not be *aid that Bovey had "no colour of rijjht," as the cltarjre stated. He had actually been given permission to take the car. The lejral distinction between tl»*ft and unlawful conversion was explained by hie* Honor. It wa« eugjrested that Bovey converted the car to his own use when he took it from Auckland to Napier without authority. After a ehort retirement the jury returned with a verdict of guilty. Accused wae remanded for sentence.