NEW PLYMOUTH SITTING.
(BT TELBORAFH.—PREBS >S«OOIATION.) NEW .PLYMOUTH, 16th August.
The Supreme Court scions opened today, Mr. Justice Salmond presiding. In tile charge to the.. Grand Jury, his Honour said that lie regretted to note that all the cases for the present criminal sittings concerned sexual offences. True ■bills were returned in all cases. William Webberley, who pleaded guilty to incest at Kaponga in May, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. His Honour, in addressing accused, pemted out (hat the crime Was the most abhorrent of offences. Hilda L. Davey, a young married woman who had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to the &eH ef ftfeattt **3 t ww admits ts two ?«*»' probates.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 41, 17 August 1921, Page 5
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