SUPREME COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25306, 4 October 1947, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED “I cannot pass this over. You broke into a charitable institution, one that befriended you. It is like robbing a church,” said Mr Justice Fleming in the Supreme Court yesterday when Angus Donoghue, a labourer, aged 22, appeared for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering St. Martin’s House of Help and stealing a cheque-book valued at 10s, to which he had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court.

Donoghue was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, cumulative, to the sentence he is now serving. Donoghue asked the Court to give him another chance and said his actions were due to liquor. He had gone straight for three years after leaving the Borstal Institution.

Convicted and Discharged Lucy Ruth Baker, aged 19, appeared for sentence on four ‘charges of breaking and entering dwellings by night. Mr A. W. Brown, for the Crown, said that Baker was at present serving a term of reformative detention and the breach of probation relating to the present charges had been committed before she was last sentenced. The charges were brought so that the matter could be cleared, up and; it was suggested, they .might not call for any further punishment.

Baker was convicted on these offences and discharged. His Honour said he would not add to her present sentence.