TROUBLE OVER CHEQUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 12

TROUBLE OVER CHEQUE.

YOUNG MAN GIVEN CHANGE.

THREE YEARS' PROBATION

"This is a chance, and I hope you will honour it and not appear before the Court again," said Mr. Justice Smith in the Supreme Court yesterday, when admitting Frank Markovini to probation for three years on a charge of uttering a forged cheque and obtaining goods by false pretences.

Counsel said tho prisoner, who was 22 years of age, had come to New Zealand from Czecho slovakia four years ago. He had since been'employed as a bricklayer by three ( men,- and at (he time of the offence was working on his own. IJe was married, with one child, and he contributed to the support of his mother, who wis still iri his native land. This was not, one of a, series of cheque-issuing offences, but one of an isolated character, and it. would seem that the prisoner was not criminally inclined. It. was a case in which probation would probably be better th an imprisonment. Jlis Honor said he would take info consideration the fact that tho prisoner was only 22 years of age, and that he had not, been before the Court before. Ho had not, gone into the witness box and perjured himself.