COURTS AND OFFENCES.
ADMITTED TO PROBATION. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N., Nov. 22. John David Mitchell, a young man who pleaded guilty at Ohakune to a charge of carnal knowledge, appeared at the Supreme Court this morning for sentence. In ireply to counsel’s plea for probation, which the report of the Probation Officer recommended. Mr. Justice Reed said: This is a. comparatively venial case of this class. The girl’s mother attaches as much blame to the girl as to the prisoner. His. Honour admitted Mitchell to probation for twelve months and ordered him to pay the costs of the case.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 November 1926, Page 9
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101COURTS AND OFFENCES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 November 1926, Page 9
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