A BAD RECORD
Reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years was the sentence imposed in the Supreme Court today on Eric John Jones, who was found guilty on a charge of obtaining three drums from McDuff's, Ltd., by false pretences, and who had pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking, entering, and theft. Counsel for the prisoner (Mr. K. Hardie Boys) said that Jones's history showed that the lot of a convicted man was not easy. The past thirteen or fourteen months had been for him a time of almost constant depression and worry in his endeavour to make good. When he was in this state of depression he got into drinking habits, and in the course of a drinking bout he committed a ridiculous offence of breaking and entering. v Mi". Justice Smith said it was plain that the prisoner had committed the I offence of breaking and entering when he was under the influence of liquor, but his record had to be regarded as a bad one. It appeared that he associated with the criminal classes and intended to pursue a life of crime.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 13
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188A BAD RECORD Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 13
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