PRISONERS SENTENCED

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 10

PRISONERS SENTENCED

Prisoners were sentenced by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court yesterday) afternoon.

Charles Weir, who was found guilty, oa Thursday afternoon of indecent assault qa • a female child, was sentenced to sis months' imprisonment with hard labour.

His Honour said he was satisfied, that ' y the jury was perfectly right in coming toi, the conclusion that Weir had indecency in! his mind when he committed the offence. Referring to the plea made by. counsel for • . Weir (Mr. C. fiain) for probation, Bis Honour said that it was impossible '■. in such a case to grant probation. Small children must be protected, and it'was'ia the public interests that a man who deliberately interfered with innocent children should be punished. ■ In the case of John Moore M/Kinder* who had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft at Wadestown, his Honour said that housebreaking was a serious crime and could not be dealt with lightly. The prisoner had been previously convicted on several occasions for minor offences, it was true, but the police; report about him was very unsatisfactory, and they; looked upon him as a dangerous criminal. He would be sentenced to two. years' im» prisonment with hard labour. . .