PRISONERS SENTENCED
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin. May 2. ; .’, In thlFSupreme Court to-day prisoners ■were sentenced as follow by his Honour Mr. Justice Kennedy :—Peter McCormick, breaking, entering and theft, 18 months’ reformative; James Storey, fraudulently .stating that he posted a postal packet containing money, two years’, probation; Erie Norman Vincent and George Dore, breaking, entering, and theft; each, .two rears’ hard labour; James Alexander Spence Tapp, incest, three years’ hard labour. Referring to Tapp’s subnormality, his Honour said it seemed true that Tapp was to bo pitied,’and that in his family history there wits* some explanation of his crime and his mdifference to its serious nature. Jf it should appear that Tapp was definitely subnormal, and that the proper place for him was a mental hospital, the Prisons Board would act. Alexander Robert Spence and Margaret .Spence, for an attempted false pretence in connection with a fire at the ■ Ranfurly Hotel, were each lined £lOO. in default six months' imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 184, 3 May 1934, Page 4
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160PRISONERS SENTENCED Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 184, 3 May 1934, Page 4
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