CHILD’S MENTALITY
JUDGE REED’S STRICTURES ON SENTENCING A PRISONER, Per Press Association. Wellington March JO Jn tlie Supreme Court to-day Frederick Davis, for causing a person to receive, a letter with intent to extort money, got three years’ probation. Ho is to pay the cogt<j of tlie prosecution, 2-js, and to be debarred from attending picture shows for a year. LMr Justice Reed mentioned the prisoner’!, youth. He said the Probation Officer gave him a good character. The bombastic language in liij letter .satisfied his Honour that prisoner should lie treated as having tlie mental capacity of a child who had been allowed to attend too many gangster pictures.
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Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 11 March 1933, Page 6
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