“SHOULD BE STAMPED OUT”
Breaking and Entering
JUDGE’S CHARGE TO GRAND JURY
By Telegraph.—Press Association,
Christchurch, February 12.
Reference to. the increasing number of breaking and entering eases was made by Mr. Justice Johnston in his charge to the grand jury at the opening of the Supreme Court criminal sessions to-day. His Honour said that a crop of charges of this nature would come before the grand jury, and it had to be remembered that a great number of persons charged with the offence did not come before the Supreme Court except for sentence. “It is a class of crime that is increasing, and it is important that it should cease, especially as we find that in one of these cases a man was actually in possession of a revolver and fired it, ’ he said. “That man has admitted that he is guilty of breaking and entering, and he is now being charged with firing a revolver with intent to do bodilj’ harm. Another man is alleged to have broken and entered premises with a revolver in his possession. When this class of offence gets to the stage where a revolver is carried it becomes increasingly important that it should tie stamped out.”
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 119, 13 February 1935, Page 11
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