MAGISTRATES COURT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 92, 15 October 1914, Page 8

MAGISTRATES COURT

The usual batch of minor criminal cases was dealt with at the Magistrate's Court this morning. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided. John Buckley, a prohibited person, was charged with drunkenness, to which he pleaded guilty. Inspector Hendrey said that Buckley had several previous convictions against him, and was confirmedly lazy, in addition to which lie was in the habit of treating his wife j abominably. In order to show the Court what sort of man he was, he called evidence, and he hoped the Court would send him to Roto Roa for as long a period as the law permitted. Accused was committed to Roto Roa Island for two years. John Smith, alias Walsh, alias Brown, an elderly man, was convicted for drunkenness and for committing an indecent act in a public place. He was fined £1, in default three days' imprisonment for drunkenness, and £3, in default fourteen days' imprisonment for the indecency. Robert Warner pleaded guilty to having been drunk and to having used obscene language when arrested. It was his first offence, and he was convicted and discharged for drunkenness and fined £2 or seven days' imprisonment on the other charge. Andrew Munro, who had been on remand for a week, undergoing medical treatment, was charged with having been found helplessly d*unk. He was convicted and ordered to pay 17s 6d medical expenses, or spend seven days in prison. William O'ObnneJl was convicted on a charge of indecency, and was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. Robert Rendall and Patrick Brady, convicted for the second time of drunkenness, were each fined 10s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. One first offender, who did not appear to answer a charge of drunkenness, was fined 10s which had been deposited as bail. Five other first offenders were convicted on charges of drunkenness and discharged.