PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20472, 16 February 1932, Page 13

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

SUPREME COURT SESSION AT AUCKLAND. (mass ASSOCIATION telzqbam.) AUCKLAND, February 15. A number of prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court to-day. In sentencing Margaret Bodman Arnott to three years' reformative detention for unlawfully using an instrument. His Honour, Mr Justice Herdman said : "It may be that the girl and others concerned were just as guilty as you, but the law looks on your offence as a grave one." The prisoner collapsed and was carried from the dock. A former stoker in the Navy named Andrew Inglis C'arswcll, who was found guilty of common assault, was sentenced to the maximum penalty of 1V months' hard labour. "How the jury found you guilty ot assault and not of a more serious offence is to mo incomprehensible," said the Judge. "You came from < a hotel and intended to fight. An unfortunate man attempted to make the peace. You followed him, struck him and the outcome is he is dead. You left him on the roadside and bolted. Tn mv opinion vou behaved like a hulfdrnnken bully." Thomns Henry Tucker, found guilty on eight charge of indecent assault on males, received seven years' hard labour. He had served seven years' imprisonment before for similar offences.