GAOL FOR RECEIVING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19404, 12 August 1926, Page 13

GAOL FOR RECEIVING.

THREE YEARS' REFORMATIVE. OTHER SENTENCE POSTPONED. POINT FOR COURT OF APPEAL. The young man Raymond Francis Woodley Grigg (Mr. Sullivan), who had been convicted of receiving stolen goods and being in possession of apparatus for counterfeiting coin, was brought before Mr. Justice Stringer for sentence in the Supreme Court yesterday. Prisoner was tried at the recent criminal sessions for burglary of a tobacconist's shop, the majority of the goods, valued at about £ls, being found in his possession when the detectives visited ,him in connection with suspicions regarding the manufacture of imitations of half-crowns. While his room was being searched Grigg, who had asked permission to shave, made a dash from the house with his face lathered and could not be overtaken. When traced some weeks later, he had dyed his hair and grown a moustache. The jury found the evidence of burglary was insufficient and returned a conviction on the secondary count of receiving. At the second trial, accused admitted being interested in metal moulding and casting, but denied ownership of the moulds for making counterfeit coins. In asking for a short sentence, Mr. Sullivan referred to two old convictions for theft. He submitted the statements of prisoner's wife had been incorporated in the police report to his disadvantage and asked that her allegations should be disregarded, as there had been matrimonial disruption. His Honor said he could not disregard the fact that prisoner had been in possession of an efficient burglar's kit. The police report was very unsatisfactory. Receiving was a serious offence, and there was no doubt that prisoner had set his mind on a criminal career. His future would be in the hands of the Prisons Board. On the charge of receiving, prisoner was sentenced to reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years. Subsequently Grigg appeared before Mr. Justice Herdman for being 'in'possession of counterfeit coin equipment. His Honor said he had decided to state a case for the Court of Appeal on the point raised by counsel regarding the admissibility of the statements made by prisoner's wife. Sentence was accordingly postponed. 4 .