SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 17

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED Pr'-oners were sentenced by the Chief Just? (Hou. M. Myers), in the Supreme Court yesterday. Lacked Home Influence. Lawrence Desmond Tanner, aged 20, who had pleaded' guilty to charges .of breakiit, entering, and theft, breaking and eritering with intent to. commit a crime, and being found by night in possession of house-breaking implements, was represented by Mr. O. Pragnell, who attributed prisoner's lapse largely to the fact that his mother died when he was only fourteen years old, thus leaving him without the refining influence of home life. ' - His Honour,- who said he did not want to send prisoner to gaol, sentenced Tanner to.be detained in a Borstal Institute for a period not exceeding three years. Needed a Lesson. When passing sentence on George Albert Proudfoot, who had been found guilty of breaking, entering, and theft. His Honour remarked that the jury had recommended prisoner to mercy, and it was his intention to give effect to the recommendation. Proudfoot, who was represented by Mr. W. Perry, was admitted to probation for two years, and was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. ’ Serious Offence. “The offence of which you have been found guilty can only be regarded as one of a serious nature, was HiB Honour s comment, in passing sentence on John Peris, who had been found guilty of an indecent assault on a young boy. Prisoner was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, with hard labour.