Man jailed on three charges
A 20-year-o!d man was sentenced to six months jail by Mr B. A. Palmer, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Maurice Bruce Rowlands had earlier pleaded guilty to charges of assault, assault with intent to injure, and car conversion. The Court heard that the! assault charges arose from an i incident in Christchurch on December 2, when two I youths were attacked by! eight others. Rowlands was ordered to I
>'pay restitution of $350 in I relation to the charge of car conversion. A prison inmate who appeared for sentence on four ; . charges had four months i' added to his jail term. James Vernon Darling, aged 32, had pleaded guilty I to charges of escaping from :' custody, assisting a female i. to escape from Sunnyside ■ Hospital, obtaining credit by ,! fraud, and stealing a jersey I and shirt. Counsel (Mr D. C. Fitzgibbon) said that Darling had 4 spent 14 years in institutions
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Press, 30 December 1976, Page 3
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