PRISONERS SENTENCED

Evening Star, Issue 22261, 12 February 1936, Page 12

PRISONERS SENTENCED

[Per. United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 12. The following prisoners were sentenced by Mr Justice Smith;—Thomas Hudson, breaking and entering and theft, reformative detention not exceeding two years; Percy Mills, obtaining hides and skins by false pretences, two years’ hard labour; Eric John Jones, obtaining goods by false pretences, also breaking and entering and theft, reformative detention not exceeding three years; John Gage Leckie, bigamy, three years’ probation; Lala Parchhotan, negligent driving of a motor vehicle, thereby causing death, three years’ imprisonment, and suspended from driving for two years. Sentence was deferred in the case of James Logie, convicted in respect of knife attacks in the city, to enable an appeal to be made to the Appeal Court on the judge’s ruling against an application by prisoner’s counsel to remove questions of law regarding the inadvisability of certain police evidence to the Court of Appeal. The prisoner was admitted to bail pending the hearing, which should take place early next month.