DRINKING BOUT SEQUEL.
THEFT of cheque and beer
TWO MEN GRANTED PROBATION
[from our own- correspondent.! HAMILTON. Tuesday
pleas of guilty were entered by Richard Paraihi Lovett, aged 39. and Ernest Got/., aced 29, before Mr. Justice Smith in the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day to charges of stealing a cheque, valued at £1 85 9d. aud four bottles of beer at. Taumarumii on Christmas Day. "The offenre was the outcome of a drinking bout," said counsel in asking that accused be placed on probation. He Mid the accused had been drinking on Christmas Eve, and on Christmas Day they went to a /( sly-grog shop to procu e more liquor. There was no one about and they took the'cheque and the liquor they fourid on the premises. There was an absence of premeditation or criminal intent on the part of accused. had been in trouble before. His Honor admitted the accused to a vear'e probation, and ordered them to pay the costs of the. prosecution. Both were prohibited.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 13
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