SUPREME COURT.
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN. Oct. 30.
In the Supreme Court this morning John Christie Spence, a radio salesman, aged 23, who was convicted on two charges of serious offences on September 6, was sentenced to seven years’ hard labour and ordered a flogging of 15 strokes with the cat.
Mr Justice Kennedy commented on the ordeal of . the victim who, resisting till she was insensible, was for sjven hours under the domination of an irresponsible brute such as prisoner had proved himself to be. The Judge said the victim of the attack, which took place on the Town Belt, was under 18, but fortunately proved brave, resisting to the limit of her physical power. All that might be said in prisoner’s favour was that he had drink, but there was no evidence that he was incompetent. Such crimes were fortunately rare, but when they did occur with such violence they called for that punishment which, in addition imprisonment, the Legislature had provided.
NAPIER SESSIONS.
Per Press Association
NAPIER, Oct. 30.
Charles Gaorge Wilmot Palmer was found not guilty to-day in the Su-, preme Court to three charges of indecent assault.
Norman Evenson received two years’ probation for a serious offence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 30 October 1934, Page 2
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