SUPREME COURT.
WELLINGTON SESSIONS. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 27.. At the Supreme Court yesterday, Frank Cootes, a Maori, charged with assault and robbery, was found guilty of assault with intent to rob, and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. PALMERSTON SESSIONS. Palmerston N., August 27. Sir Robert Stout had before him for sentence on Saturday a youth of twenty who had pleaded guilty to carnally knowing a girl under sixteen at Mangaweka. The offence had been committed on the second occasion of his meeting the girl, and Mr Cooper, for the defence, pleaded that the girl was a consenting party, and that it was not her first experience. As the youth, who was respectably connected at Wellington, had never been before the courts before, he asked for probation.
Sir Robert Stout said that probation had never before been granted in such a case, and he would have to consult the other judges before extending it. Ho would have enquiries made as to the youth’s personal character, and therefore remanded him to Thursday for sentence.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 10, 28 August 1911, Page 5
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