GREYMOUTH ASSAULT
SENTENCE OF ONE MONTH
SERVED
Francis Thomas Marson, aged 21, who was remanded to the Supreme Court at Christchurch for sentence, after pleading guilty in the Police Court at Greymouth to a charge of assaulting Raymond Jeffery Dyer in Albert street, on July 4, with intent to cause actual bodily harm, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. “That means that you may go,” said His Honor, Sir Archibald Blair, in imposing the sentence of one month, for the time of the accused’s 'arrest on the charge. Mr. J. K. Maloney, for the prisoner, had explained to His Honor that the accused had been in prison for a month since the incident, which had occurred during a drunken brawl at Greymouth, with no permanent injury to the victim. Marson had served in New Zealand during the war and had enlisted with the Maori Battalion while still under age, suffering’severe wounds in Italy.,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1946, Page 2
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