PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1929, Page 15

PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES

WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Aug. 15. Prisoners were sentenced by Mr. Justice Smith as follow: —Stanley Jesse Dark, theft as a servant of £4OO, two years’ reformative detention; Taare Hina Reavi, forgery at Masterton, -probation for a year; Peter Soreneon, aged 66, indecent assault on a female child, six months’ imprisonment; Walter Whitehouse, theft as a servant of £658, two years’ reformative detention; Henry Ernest Schirnack, indecent assault on a female and theft, 'three years’ Borstal detention; David Swift, breaking, entering and theft, two years’ reformative detention; William Edward Francis, assault and robbery and two charges of assault on a female, two years’ Borstal detention. Nathaniel John Reed, who recently injured a motor cyclist by running into him while driving a car on the Hutt road, came up for sentence. Counsel said prisoner had pleaded guilty rather than wait three months in prison. The accident was due to cigarette ash blowing into his eye. His Honour said no one would suppose that prisoner deliberately wished to injure the young man, but, if while intoxicated he launched himself upon the Hutt road in charge of a motor-car on a Sunday evening, he was really guilty of a criminal offence. Probation could not be granted, nor was the •case one for a fine. The sentence was six months’ imprisonment and cancellation of license, with three years’ disqualification.