PRISONERS SENTENCED.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 12. The following prisoners were sentenced by Mr Justice Smith to-dav ; Thomas Hudson, breaking and entering and theft, reformative detention not exceeding two years; Percy Mills, obtaining hides and skins by false pretences, two years’ hard labour; Eric John Jones, obtaining goods by false pretences, also breaking and entering and theft, reformative detention not exceeding three years; John Gage Leekie, bigamy, three years’ probation; Lala Parchhotan, negligent driving of a motor vehicle, thereby causing death, three months’ imprisonment and suspended from driving for two yeare. SENTENCE DEFERRED. Sentence was deferred in the case of James Log'e, who was convicted in respect to k V ' attacks 'in the city, to enable an appeal to be made to the Appeal Court on the Judge’s ruling against the application by prisoner’s counsel to remove questions of law regarding the inadmissibility of certain police evidence to the Court of Appeal. Prisoner was admitted to bail pending the hearing, which should take place early next month.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 64, 13 February 1936, Page 2
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