SAFETY OF PUBLIC
SUPBEME MAXIM IN LAW.
(By Telegraph.)
[ (Special to "The Evening Post.") .:"; ".' .'■■', AUCKLAND, This Day. -"In such offences as this'it is quite, clear that the duty of the Court is to see to the safety of the public," said Mr. Justice Adams this morning when sentencing Harry Victor' Barke (23) to two years' reformative detention on a charge of indecent assault oh boys.. Counsel stressed the youth of the accused and urged probation, adding that the lesson he had received would be a very strong incentive to his expressed determination to rehabilitate himself. His' Honour said that he could'not look at the cas^ in that light. "The old maxim thatf'the Safety of tho pub- ; lie was the supreme law applied with special force to cases where offences were' committed that would have the inevitablo effect of corrupting the morals of young children. It was imperative in these cases to'take such steps as could be reasonably taken to minimise the recurrence of such offences | and. the degradation of young children.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 108, 3 November 1926, Page 9
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171SAFETY OF PUBLIC Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 108, 3 November 1926, Page 9
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