SUPREME COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

PRISONERS SENTENCED (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIEE, 12 th June. Prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice '(Sir Michael Myers). Edward Patrick Leahy and Albert Bowen, for breaking, entering, and theft, were each sentenced to two years' hard labour; Peter Eeilly, for theft of £800, four years' hard labour; James Williamson, breaking and entering, twelve months' hard labour; Jeffares and Wifflii, two youths, breaking, entering, and theft, four years' Borstal detention; Lichfold, another youth, breaking, entering, and theft, four years' probation; Raymond Claude Hogg, breaking, entering, and theft, probation for three years; James Smart Sharp, theft, twelve months' probation; Arapata Karaitiaua, attempted •pc, seven years' reformative detention. HAMILTON, 12th June. Prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, as follows: Archibald Westlake, aged 41, breaking and entering and theft at Motumaoho, o years' hard labour; Matthew Joseph Spellars, aged 25, theft of partnership moneys at Te Kuiti, twelve months' hard labour; Donald M'Millan, aged 19, breaking, entering, and theft, three years' Borstal detention. M'Millan, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate \ Court yesterday, broke into a drapery establishment at Hamilton on 31st May and stole men's clothing to the value of £16 4s Sd. A piece of wire was used to push a key out of a lock. Prisoner's record disclosed a previous offence of a similar nature.