SUPREME COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 10

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND,

'(Per United Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 6. Described by Mr Justice Smith in the Supreme Court, Auckland, as the archconspirator, Cecil William Mitchell, aged -1, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. His brother, Arthur M. Mitchell, aged 22, who, his Honor said, had been drawn into the affair, was sent to gaol for six months. Both had pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding an insurance cbmpany of £IBO. NAPIER. (Per United Press Association.) NAPIER. November 5. The Supreme Court sitting at Napier opened before Mr Justice Ostler, who complimented the district on the freedom from crime, and referred to the fact that there were no sexual cases. John Tabu Andrews pleaded guilty to forgery and uttering, and was sentenced to reformative detention not exceeding three years. Leonard A. E. Maughan, for the theft of money and a motor cycle, was ordered to be returned to the State farm. Harold Septimus Rose pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, with intent to commit a crime, and was admitted to two years’ probation, and ordered to make restitution and pay the costs of the prosecution.