ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 10

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

TWO MEN GIVEN THREE YEARS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIEB, 9th November. "The plea of drink is not going to work this time," said his Honour Mr. Justice Blair, at the Napier sitting of the Supreme Court, in answer to the remark of Mr. C. W. Nash, as counsel for William George Eae, who, with Erie Jones, was sentenced to" three years' hard labour for robbery with violence. Eae, said Mr. Nash, had been on a drinking bout on the day of the offence; tho crime was not premeditated. His Honour: "He took the opportunity." Kae had bad a previous conviction for a similar offence, and his Honour on a former occasion had given him a chance. He had apparently decided not to go straight, and had indulged in his activities at race meetings. He had robbed a helpless old man. Floggings were once the punishment for such crimes, and though now they were not allowed, it was not to be said that they never would be allowed again. For Jones, Mr. Hislop said the man was married, and had two children. Drink had been his downfall.