PUNISHMENT FOR THEFT
KELLETT SENTENCED. 18 MONTHS’ HARD LABOUR. Imprisonment with hard labour for IS months was the sentence imposed by ills Honour. Mr Justice Blair upon Robert Edward Kellett, aged 19 years, who appeared in the (Supreme Court at Napier this morning to receive his punishment for breaking, entering and committing theft at Havelock North. The accused was represented by Mr W. E Bate, who pleaded for leniency, reminding His Honour that he had sentenced Kellett at Gisborne some time ago for another offence, when he was sentenced to imprisonment for three years. His Honour expressed regret that the accused had found himself before the Court again and mentioned that his present sentence, which was to run concurrently with that which he was already serving, would not increase the term of the former sentence.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 72, 7 March 1933, Page 7
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