SEVEN YEARS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 157, 13 June 1931, Page 6

SEVEN YEARS

SHOOTING OF GIRL SENTENCTON NUNN NOT OF STABLE MENTALITY, CHIEF JUSTICE SAYS NAPIER, Ju-ae 32. In sentencing Hubert Frederick Nunn to seven years' reformative detention for the attempted murder of Mavis Steele Smith at Hastings on April 7, of which he was found guilty in the Supreme Court this afternoon, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myer«, said he did not regard Nunn as of stable mentality, but he was veryiar from being insane as laid down by definition. At the same time, His Honour said, human life must be protected and offences of this type could not be allowefl to be committed. His Honour added that he did not intend to inflict, a term of impris onment with hard labour but would sentence Nunn to a long period of reformative detention. During that time he would He under observation. Mr. Ilallett, for the defence, said the evidence he had proposed to call would indicate that Nunn was suffering from moral insanity and not intellectual insanity. His Honour: I fear I do not sec Hie difference.