SUPREME COURT
<a>~ NAl’I HR, March 2. The only criminal ease before the session of the Supreme Court, which opened yesterday, was ono in which Richard William Cough’lan was charged with indecently assaulting young girls. _ Accused pleaded guilty, and it was submitted on his behalf that die was of weak intellect. His Honor accepted evidence as to tho weak-minded-ness of accused and attributed the crime to this rather than to a criminal purpose. Accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 8 March 1921, Page 23
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