RECEIVING CHARGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26214, 26 July 1946, Page 9

RECEIVING CHARGE

BARMAN FOUND GUILTY SEQUEL TO POST OFFICE ROBBERY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 25. Roy Vincent, who was recently acquitted by a jury on a charge of breaking and entering the Te Aro Post Office and stealing more than £9OO, was to-day found guilty by a jury in the Supreme Court at Wellington of receiving £634 8s lljd, portion of certain moneys stolen from the Te Aro Post Office. The case was heard before the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myer^. Addressing the jury, Mr W. J. Stacey, for the accused, said that Vincent had been tried on a charge of breaking and entering and been acquitted. It might well be asked'why there had been such delav in bringing the receiving charge More than £9OO had been stolen from the Te. Aro Post Office, and only some £6OO had been found in Vincent’s house. When the jury returned a verdict of guilty, the Crown Prosecutor applied for an order that the money found in Vincent’s home should be returned to the Crown. Mr Stacey said he had something to say on that matter, particularly with regard to £75 which had been found in a Post Office Savings Bank book of Vincent s W ffis Honor said that Mr Stacey could confer with the Crown Prosecutor on the matter. The prisoner would be remanded for sentence till Monday morning, when Mr Stacey’s application would be heard