TO MAKE FRESH START
YOUNG MAN ADMITS HOUSE-BREAKINGS PENALTY NOT INCREASED “it appears you have confessed to these offences to have them cleared up, so that you can make a fresh start when you are released from prison,’’ remarked Mr. Justice Smith in . the Supreme Court today, to Walter Patrick Murphy, appearing for sentence for seven crimes of breaking, entering and theft.
His Honour said that as prisoner was serving three years’ reformative detention he would not increase the sentence. He imposed nine months’ hard labour for the present offences, to run concurrent with the sentence now being served. EARLIER OFFENCE
Now serving a sentence of 12 months, Francis Vernon was given nine months’ hard labour, to run concurrently with his present term, for breaking, entering and theft, by Mr. Justice Smith, in the Supreme Court today. His Honour remarked that the offence was committed before the crimes on which he was now in gaol. He therefore considered it was unnecessary to increase the punishment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 829, 25 November 1929, Page 1
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165TO MAKE FRESH START Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 829, 25 November 1929, Page 1
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