VOLUNTARY SURRENDER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21807, 23 May 1934, Page 16

VOLUNTARY SURRENDER

CONVERSION OF MOTOR-CAR YOUNG MAN IMPRISONED "Accused must be given credit for having voluntarily reported the matter tc tho police," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, when Stanley Nicholas Bakulich, aged 22, described as an accountant and labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of converting to his own use a car valued at £SO, the property of Martha Skinner Alabone. Sub-Inspector Edwards said the owner of the car parked it in Havelock Street on Sunday evening, and later it was missing. It was found at 7 o'clock the following morning in Stanley Street. At 7.15 a.m. accused voluntarily appeared at the watch-house and admitted that he had taken the car. Ho said he had got into the car and allowed it to run down the hill into Stanley Street, where- he found the gears were locked. Ho then abandoned it. In reply to a question from Mr. Hunt, tho sub-inspector said the police were not actually on the trail of accused at tho time he gave himself up. "Accused is liable to three months' imprisonment, and ho would have got it if it were not for the fact that he deserves credit for admitting die offence," said Mr. Hunt, in sentencing accused to a month's imprisonment.