SUPREME COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 69, 20 February 1932, Page 10

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press Association. NAPIER, Feb. 19. Kenneth- Impett was convicted of indecent assault and was sentenced by Mr J ustice McGregor to lour years’ imprisonment. His Honour said that he agreed with the police and the probation reports that prisoner was a menace in view of his past record, and notwithstanding the jury’s recommendation to mercy a term of imprisonment was necessary. SENTENCES AT INVERCARGILL. , Per Press Association. . INVERCARGILL, Feb. 19. Maurice Patrick Duffy and William Leonard Brewer were sentenced by Mr Justice Kennedy to five and a-half years’ hard labour for breaking and entering the dwelling of the bank manager at Edendale. His Honour said that they entered the house masked with a loaded rifle and a sandbag, and both the manager and his wife were attacked. Duffy liad been pursuing a criminal'course for some time, and the attack was very violent. Brewer carried a loaded rifle, with which he threatened the manager and his wife, and attempted to gag her.

Duffy was also sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for breaking and entering the Regent Theatre, and on four charges of receiving stolen property received one year’s hard labour, all the sentences to be concurrent. William Leonard Brewer, for theft of a payroll amounting to £827, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Thomas Harold Brewer, for receiving money knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained, received two years’ reformative’ detention. r ' ...