PRISONERS SENTENCED
Prisoners were sentenced by the Chief Justice (the Hon. M. Myers) in the Supreme Court to-day.
On a charge of obscene exposture James Taylor Watt was sentenced to two years' reformative detention. His Honour said that the circumstances disclosed by the depositions were such as to exclude any question of probation, as pleaded for by the prisoner. Moreover, it was not the first time he had been convicted on a charge of indecency.
A sentence of six months' hard labour was imposed on Eeginald Eugene Seager, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of carnal knowledge. The sentence -was ordered to be cumulative with another term the prisoner is at present serving.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 12
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114PRISONERS SENTENCED Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 12
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