NAMES SUPPRESSED
SUPREME COURT CASES. The most unusual procedure of granting probation and ordering suppression of the prisoners name was followed b\* Mr. Justcc Fair in the Supreme Court today in two cases of widely different character and circumstances.
In the first a youth charged with a sexual offenee was admitted to probation owing to exceptional eircum.-tances. and a written plea, from his parents induced his Honor to order suppression of the accused's name.
The second case had reference to defalcation by a female clerk in circumstances which Mr. L. P. Lcary was able to show that it was an unpremeditated and isolated lapse, in a. long period of loyal service. This was testified by the employer's evidence, and further' evidence attested that the woman's penitence and shanW- had seriously affected her health.
His Honor, in making his jit uneements. said that both cases were exceptional in their circumstances, and justified exceptional treatment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 127, 30 May 1940, Page 8
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