UNUSUAL CASE
ARRESTED TWICE IN ONE
DAY
Arrested for drunkenness in Featherston Street at 1.5 p.m. yesterday and released on his own bail at 7.40 p.m., a man was rearrested at 9 p.m. in Featherston Street, again for drunkenness. ; He was convicted and fined 10s, the amount of his bail, on the first charge, by Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, and convicted and discharged on the second. He pleaded guilty to each charge. The case was a most unusual one because an offence of drunkenness committed within a period of six months from the date of a previous conviction for the same offence is regarded as a second statutory offence and .frequently treated with more severity than a first statutory offence, but in this case the absence of a Court conviction on the first charge when he was arrested on the second meant that he/ appeared in Court today as a first statutory offender on both charges. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 11
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162UNUSUAL CASE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 11
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