GUILTY OF ASSAULT
REFORMATIVE DETENTION ORDERED (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, May 13.’ Austin Ernest Prince was sentenced to three year’s reformative detention by Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court this morning. Yesterday afternoon a jury found Prince guilty of assault with intent to commit rape and recommended leniency. On a charge of indecently assaulting a female arising out of the same incident he was found not guilty. The Judge said Prince had accosted the girl and in ordinary cases of that kind long sentences of imprisonment were imposed. But for the recommendation of the jury he would have given Prince five years’ imprisonment said the Judge.
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Southland Times, Issue 23817, 15 May 1939, Page 7
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