Supreme Court GUILTY OF INCITING

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30745, 8 May 1965, Page 16

Supreme Court GUILTY OF INCITING

Not Guilty Of Theft A jury in the Supreme Court yesterday found James Charles Doyle, aged 21, a kitchenhand, not guilty on a charge of theft from a car on March 10 of a briefcase and contents valued at £5 7s 4d, and guilty on a charge that on the same date he incited Jack Robert Miller to obtain by false pretences goods and money to the value of £lO from Charles Begg and Company, Ltd. Mr Justice Wilson was on the bench, Mr C. M. Roper appeared for the Crown, and Mr G. R. Joyce for Doyle. In his opening address Mr Roper said that a car was broken into on March 5 and the briefcase, which contained a cheque-book, was taken. Jack Miller said in evidence that he had been dealt with by the Court for breaking into the car. Doyle was with him at the time of the offence, Doyle actually breaking into the car while he kept watch.

Later that same day Doyle told him how to go about cashing the cheque, and made out the cheques and signed them with the name that appeared on a driver’s licence in the briefcase. He took the cheque to Begg’s and cashed it, said Miller. Doyle was remanded in custody for sentence.

Prison Sentence Reduced

The Chief Justice (Sir Harold Barrowclough) in the Supreme Court yesterday varied to two months’ imprisonment a sentence of three months’ imprisonment imposed on Basil Raymond Jones, aged 20, a workman, in the Invercargill Magistrate’s Court on April 2. when he had pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while disqualified at Lorneville on January 14. Mr N. R. Morgan appeared for the Crown, and Mr D. J. Hewitt for Jones.