CRIME PUNISHED

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 9

CRIME PUNISHED

SUPREME COURT CASES

"RECEIVING MUST BE PUT DOWN"

Prisoners who had either pleaded • guilty or had been found guilty at the .Supreme Court sessions this week were sentenced to-day by Mr. Justice MacGregor. The prisoners, with their offences and sentences, were as follows:—

George Frederick Murphy, breaking ami entering and theft, receiving stolon goods, two years' hard labour on each charge, tlie. sentences to be concurrent.

George Kgariniu, a half-caste Maori, aged 24, assault, twelve months' hard labour, to be followed by two years' reformative treatment. His Honour said that tlus assault was . a most i cowardly and disgraceful affair. After having been given a meal by a woman, the prisoner had made a violent attack upon her. I Clarenec Frank Ross, breaking and entering and vagrancy, two years' and twelve months' imprisonment, respectively, the sentences to bo concurrent. Albert Henry O'Malley, uttering counterfeit coin, six months' imprisonment. Thomas Fearon, receiving, two years' imprisonment. His Honour said that receiving was a very serious offence, and deserved a. heavy sentence. "The facts in this case," he added, "show that the thing was done very deliberately and rather cleverly in a way. The receiver in most cases is really / worse than the thief.- I cannot disregard the prisoner's list of previous convictions, one or two of which involve dishonesty. Receiving must be put down, there is no doubt about that." Alexander Herd, aged 22, theft and breaking and entering and theft, eighteen months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. His Honour said ho thought the prisoner should be medically examined.