CRIME PUNISHED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 90, 12 October 1929, Page 11

CRIME PUNISHED

PRISONERS SENTENCED

Prisoners were, sentenced by "the Chief Justice (the Hon. M. Myers) -in the Supreme Court yesterday. Appearing, for Clarence Moore, a earner, aged 29, who had pleaded guilty to assault with intent to commit rape, Mr. W. Perry called evidence of previous unblemished character, and also read a letter from the prisoner's former employer stating that Moore was abstemious and hard-working. Counsel . said that Moore was a married man with three children. Although usually abstemious, he had taken a considerable quantity of liquorprior to the_ offence. T'jere was 4 no premeditation in the offence, said counsel, in urging that leniency be extended. His Honour said that the case was an unfortunate one in view of the family circumstances, but the offence was a very serious one, and the Court could regard it in no. other light. Sentence of three years' reformative detention was imposed.

Phillip Johri Martin, a labourer, aged 3S, was sentenced to ' twelve months' reformative detention for attempted breaking and entering with intent to commit a_ crime, and for being found by night in p'ossessiori of house-breaking implements. _1« sentencing Albert James Self, aged 35, to twelve months' reformative detention for breaking entering and theft, his Honour remarked that the case was not an serious as some which came before the Court;, but the offence of breaking and. entering ..was rife, .and it was. the duty of. the; Court t.o stop it;