BURGLARY CHARGE
Four-year Gaol Term Imposed
(N Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, Aug. 21. Burglary was an offence that occurred far too frequently to be met by prison sentences of 18 months or two years, unless there were extraordinary mitigating features, Mr Justice Hardie Boys said in the Supreme Court today. His Honour said he made this comment notwithstanding the fact that this week he reduced a three-year sentence for burglary to 11 months. He said he did this because he wanted to impose a special condition of probation and this was possible only if the prison sentence was less than a year.
His Honour today Imposed a sentence of four years imprisonment on Dennis Michael Casey, aged 22, a machine operator, who had pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of breaking and entering Shoprite Food Stores, ltd, Richmond Road, on July 15. Mr W. J. Meade, S.M., had declined jurisdiction and committed Casey to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 26
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162BURGLARY CHARGE Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 26
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