SIX MONTHS’ GAOL
ATTEMPTED WITNESS TAMPERING For attempting to pervert the course of justice by persuading a woman witness to give false evidence in the prosecution of Jessie Morris, William Bobbett, aged 36, was sent to gaol for six months by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court yesterday. Pleading for Bobbett, Mr. Dickson described the offence as extremely rare, and suggested that a similar case had probably never come before the court. Counsel pointed out that Bobbett, in writing the letter to the woman witness’s husband, had acted at the dictation of Mrs. Bobbett. “Fortunately it is true that tampering with the course of justice is not a common offence in New Zealand,” said his Honour. Tampering with juries or witnesses or bribing the police were offences to be regarded with gravity, the Judge said, and he considered it very regrettable to find a man with prisoner’s past record in such a position. The Judge said he had made the sentence lighter because Bobbett had previously borne a good character.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 11
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