JUDGE VOICES DOUBT
LIQUOR AS EXCUSE CASE OF BURGLARY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 31. Indulgence in liquor was cited as an excuse for criminal offences in several instances in the Supreme Court yesterday when prisoners were sentenced. The Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O'Leary said he was a bit inclined to think that drink was too often used as an excuse for offences. Where this excuse was made in a burgary case, His Honour said he could see no warrent for suggesting that drink had anything to do with the offence. “It is my experience that a man under the influence of liquor does not go about with a jemmy for use in house-breaking, or a pair of black gloves for the purpose of obliterating finger-prints that might be left.” The prisoners in this case, Maurice James Hogg. 29, labourer, who had pleaded guilty in Christchurch to a charge of attempted breaking and entering, was sentenced to two and a half years’ reformative detention.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22243, 31 January 1947, Page 3
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