THEFT AS A SERVANT
REFORMATIVE DETENTION
The plea that the prisoner had been a victim of his own generosity m helping another person out of dimcuity, and had tried5 to repair his own position by a moderate form of gambling, •was put forward in the Supreme Court today by Mr. G. C. Kent on behalf o* James Kemp Smith, accountant, 44, who had pleaded guilty to two charges of theft as a Government servant. The prisoner, said Mr. Kent, had known that his superannuation funds fully covered liis misappropriations. In sentencing the prisoner to twelve months' reformative detention, Mr. Justice Blair said the prisoner had trained many young men in their duties and had impressed upon them the necessity for the strictest honesty. He had failed' to follow the precepts he had taught, and could not expect probation. If -probation were granted, i* would have" to be granted- to ever first toffender. , . , ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 102, 2 May 1944, Page 6
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152THEFT AS A SERVANT Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 102, 2 May 1944, Page 6
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