SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 640, 18 October 1909, Page 11

SUPREME COURT.

, , CASES FOR SENTENCE, IVqr prisoners came up for sentence beforo lus Honour Mr Justico Cooper at the Supremo Court on Sefurdpy morning, Sentence on Frederick Henry Lambert, trho h&d pleaded guilty to, a charge of bigamy at Wellington, w« deferred until next Saturday. Mr. Gray •ppenred'for the prisoner

i A CASE TOR SYMPATHY Bertha Broirn caino up for sentence, having pleaded cnilty ln.tho Magistrate's Court to cont coaling tho birth of hor stillborn child I t Tho young woman, raid his Ilonour, had bcon la'honeSl; service, and a good deal of sympathy conjd bo extended to her Sho had had no holj) at all from tho child's father. Tho case vrafe not one calling for tho imposition of <i Bop.tenco,,and she -would, simply be ordered to cotno uo {or scntonco when called upon. Mr. Wi H. D. 8011, 7110 appeared for the Crown, (aid that ther&g'aa nothing to bo said Bgr.intt the girl's oliawgf er. His Honour• Has friends' I do not ■want her to leave tho court to bo loft to her own resources Inspector Ellison Tho Salvation Army is pro- ' pared to tako caro of her. I Hn Honour I appreciate Tory ronch tho I position which the Salvation Army taJMs up in I regard to eases of this description. '""' ' LENIENCY USELESS la sentence on William Willis for bronkins and entering, end theft, hi? Honour , remarked that 'the 'caso nas not one which , called for muoh lenlenov. The pnsonor had shown decidedly criminal lnstmofs. and thero were a number of previous convictions against him Ho would be Bontenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour

WARNING TO AN OLD OFFENDER. "You ore an old offender, too, I see," smd his Honour, Tn;hen James M'ljean, alias , Boylo, was set forward, PrisonGr had'pleaded guilty to twb chartres—thrift and forgery and uttering, at -Now Plymouth, The eontenco was threo yearf' 'hard' labour for, the , forgery, and one year for theft, the i terms to run Concurrently. Hii Honour warned v prisoner that if, >hen he cdme out of gaol, he committed inether offenco he would bo declared an habitual criminal.