SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 121, 20 February 1928, Page 16

SUPREME COURT

prisoners sentenced at AUCKLAND. Br Telegraph.—Peess Association Auckland, February 18. In the Supreme Court, Boe Griffis, with four aliases, was sentenced to twelve months’ reformative detention for theft committed the same day as lie was released on probation for another offence. Ivy Hazel Kite, for receiving stolen goods, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. John Edwin Robinson, aged 58 years, got five years’ hard labour, for. criminal assault on a girl.

PRISONERS SENTENCED. Br Telegraph I’ubs? asm ciai ion Christchurch, February 17. Edward Skipworth Dixon, for indecent assault on a male, was admitted to probation for three years. Dunean Clrasland, for indecent assault on a male, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment on each of two charges, the sentences to be concurrent. Herbert ■William Heighten, lor indecent assault on a female, was sentenced to reformative treatment for a peiiod not exceeding ten years. Oliver Victor Tuckwell, for common assault on a female, was ordered to come up for sentence within threj months. Francis Robert F icholson, for indecent assault on a female, ■was ordered to come up for sentence within three months. Walter Fraser Shorris Harneiss, for burglary, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. James O’Brien, for F heft, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment end declared an habitual criminal. Harold Hardgrave, for theft, was admitted to probation tor one year. Edward Frederick Wilde, for making r. false statement that Im posted a packet containing lined MW -nd entered