ILLEGAL DEALINGS IN
PETROL ! SENTENCE OF TWO YEARS’ j DETENTION (New Zealand Press Association) E ’ AUCKLAND. June 1. , The prisoner had committed a ! breach of trust with “a considerable I! amount of low cunning,” said Mr Jusj tice Callan to-day. when he sentenced I Jack Crutchley. aged 24, a driver, to . ! two years' reformative detention on . I one count of theft and one of fals- . { pretences. d The charges, which involved £65 in money, resulted from illegal petrol I transactions made when Crutchlev I was a truck driver with the Atlantic Union Oil Companj’. Counsel for the prisoner (Mr L. P. Leary) said that, because there had been a trial, a retrial and an appeal taken to the Court of Appeal th° proceedings had dragged on for a year. Crutchley was a sensitive man. and the effect of waiting for 12 months for his sentence had been as terrible to him as a period in gaol. His Honour said that most of the delay had resulted from the desperate attempts by prisoner's able counsel to get Crutchley out of trouble. In any case, a sentence ran from the time a orisoner was convicted.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26128, 2 June 1950, Page 11
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