SUPREME COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23558, 22 July 1938, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

CHARGE AGAINST CHINESE In the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr Justice Kennedy, the case against Howe Tailing, charged with carnal knowledge of a girl under 16, was called, and a jury was empanelled Mr F. B. Adams will conduct the prosecution, and Mr O u. Stevens is appearing for the defence. The terms of the indictment were conveyed to the accused through an interpreter, whose services will be required throughout the trial. Evidence in the case will be heard to-day PRISONERS SENTENCED (Per United Press Association) HAMILTON, July 21. Four prisoners were sentenced bv Mr Justice Reed in the Supreme Court at Hamilton this afternoon. Aubrey Conray Brough, aged 27, a farmer, who was found guilty on two charges of -he theft of cattle at Ana. near Te Kuiti, was fined £oo, in default six months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and on the other was convicted and discharged. John Francis O Keefee, aged 58, a labourer at Frankton, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labour for assault with intent to rob. His Honor said that the prisoner was already a habitual criminal on licence Leonard Frank Haynes, aged 3(! vears. a labourer and miner of Te Awamutu, and Walter Leonard Cooper aged 38. a labourer of Te Awamutu both of whom pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court at Hamilton las! week to breaking and entering a shop at Putaruru and also the Frankton School, also appeared for sentence. Haynes was sentenced to 12 months reformative detention on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. Cooper was sentenced to 18 months hard labour and in addition was declared an habitual criminal. Commenting on the cattle stealing case, his Honor impressed on the public the gravity of cattle stealing, stating that no one was entitled to drive unbranded cattle from the bush and claim them as his own Cases of this nature were usually punished by a term of imprisonment, and the fact that the defendant was merely fined did not indicate that similar measures would be taken against other offenders.