THE COURTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18512, 8 March 1930, Page 20 (Supplement)

THE COURTS

SENTENCE REDUCED. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN. March 7. Robert Abercrombie Brown, who was this morning sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for theft, reappeared I before Mr Justice Kennedy this afternoon. His Honour said: “The depositions disclose that the theft in this case is theft by a servant. The criminal calendar before me so described it. The maximum penalty for theft as a servant is fourteen years' imprisonment. The information to which you have pleaded guilty does not describe the crime as theft by a servant. The penalty will therefore be as if your theft were not theft as a servant, and as if the maximum penalty was two years. The sentence wlil be that you be imprisoned with hard labour for eighteen months, instead of three years.” THEFT CASES. By Teleenrih—Prees Association. WELLINGTON, March 7. Ernest Henry Laity, labourer, was to-day sentenced to three months’ hard labour for theft from Walter Lewis, who had befriended him. On 19 charges of theft, involving £7B, and miscellaneous property, Godfrey Ernest Parmenter, labourer (19), was further remanded to see if ari rangements could be made to send ; him back to the Old Country. BANK CLERK’S THEFTS. By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 7. At a sitting of the Magistrate’s I Court at Alexandra yesterday, J. A. j Simes, a clerk in the Bank of New Zealand at Alexandra, pleaded guilty j to theft of £IOO on November 3, 1929, ' and £520 on February 22nd. He was | committed to the Supreme Court for I sentence.