MAN SENTENCED FOR THEFTS

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27400, 13 July 1954, Page 9

MAN SENTENCED FOR THEFTS

IMPRISONMENT FOR THREE YEARS “You entered upon a number of thefts immediately after you came out of gaol. You were convicted by a jury, and no matter how you felt, it would not justify your actions in committing these offences,” said Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when he sentenced William Davey, aged 40, a painter, to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Davey had previously pleaded guilty to 14 charges of burglary, theft, housebreaking by day and theft from dwellings, involving articles valued at a total of £2052. The Magistrate entered a conviction on each count, with terms of imprisonment ranging from six months to three years on each charge. The terms of the sentence are concurrent. Mr W. F. Brown, who appeared for Davey, said that Davey had first came to the notice of the Court at the age of 17, and although he had been convicted of theft on several occasions, he had never been given the benefit of probation. Davey had told him the only reason he had embarked upon this series of offences was that he considered he was innocent of an offence for which he was convicted in the Supreme Court last year. The offence arose out of anger in that he had been convicted.