SUPREME COURT.
SENTENCES AT WANGANUI
(by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION WANGANUI, Fell. 13
At the Supreme Court to-day, John Graham was sentenced to two years for theft, Matthew Wilson to nine month 1 '
for abetting arson; David James, to a period not exceeding 18 months' reformative treatment for perjury ; Arthur Motley who pleaded guilty *to arson, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years. A CHRISTCHURCH SENTENCE. CHRIiSTGHUR.H, Feb. 13. Arthur Morris, convicted of rape at Timvald, was sentenced to 15 years. Judge Adams .stating that he refrained •from ordering a. flogging because of Morris’s physical disabilities, namely, the loss, of a hand and am eye. CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER. DUNEDIN, Feb. 13. Philip Gordon Sutherland, aged 21, who was fomndi guilty of manslaughter in connection with the drunken, affray at Christmas, resulting in the death of John James Ryan, who was kicked in a vital spot, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. The Judge remarked that accused did not begin, the quarrel, but described it as a big, cowardly brutality
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 February 1925, Page 7
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