GAOL FOR ASSAULT.
TWO MEN SENTENCED,
COMMENT BY THE JUDGE.
"They were concerned with a grave assault on a man who had befriended I hem," said Mr. Justice Smith in tho Supreme Court yesterday when sentencing Robert .Morton to three years' imprisonment with hard labour for robbery with violence, and James Daley to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour for assault, with intent to rob. On behalf of Daley Mr. Noble said (he jury had not seemed to regard him as tlie principal offender, and as far as he was concerned there was no serious violence. The whole incident had been caused through drink. Daley had been convicted previously for drunkenness, but at 110 stage of bis career bad be beeii convicted of an offenco involving dislioneslv.
I His Honor: Ho has ' had two con vie tions for assault.
Mr. Noble said that Daley's part in the assault amounted to nolhing more than holding complainant's hands. "It was a cowardly and brutal assault," said His Honor. "Morton seems to have been the ringleader, and he has had previous convictions involving robbery. If it one of those offences directly opposed to law and order."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 12
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193GAOL FOR ASSAULT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 12
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