BURGLAR SENTENCED
MAN WITH BAD RECORD
"PERMANENT GAOL BOARDER "
The suggestion to his counsel that tho prisoner might be described as a permanent gaol, boarder was made by Mr, Justice Blair in the Supreme Court today when John Joseph McClintock 1 appeared for sentence. MeClintock had been found guilty during the week of breaking and entering and theft at the Moera Post Office. Ho was sen: tencod to three years' imprisonment, and in addition was declared ■' an habitual criminal. ■ • - , ; Mr. G.~ C. Kent, counsel for the prisoner, said ho realised it, was a difficult matter, to say anything on behalf of a man with a record such as McClintock 's. It appeared that McClintock's whole moral structure had broken down and that he was unable to resist any temptation that came, his way. Coum sel asked his Honour to take into consideration the fact that the prisoner had been in gaol on the present charge since April 2. In passing sentence, his Honour, looking at McClintoek.'s record, said tho prisoner had been more or less constantly in gaol since 1917 or 1918. He was one of those-, unfortunate people who evidently had \ adopted a life of crime. ' There were seven or eight convictions against him, and imprisonment in the past did not appear to have made much difference.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 13
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BURGLAR SENTENCED
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 13
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