SUPREME COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 123, 26 May 1936, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

SENTENCES AT NAPIER [ Ter Pres* Association J NAPIER, May 23. Prisoners sentenced at the Supreme Court before Mr. .Justice Reed wore: Moss A\ylie, dentist, aged 28, for reckless driving causing death and three charges of causing bodily injury, )5 months’ reformative detention, his licence being cancelled for five years; James Baxter, aged 34, police constable, on seven charges of breaking, entering, theft and breaking and entering, four years’ gaol; William Edward Cleaver, aged 56, nightwatchman, for breaking, entering and theft, two years’ gaol; Martin Peraniko, alias Bobbey Martin, farm labourer, for breaking, entering, theft and theft from a dwelling, two years’ probation; Charles George Riddall, aged 33, for breaking and entering by night with intent to commit a crime, two years’ probation; Stephen Francis Yeary, alias John Foley, alias James Driscott, aged 36, for theft from a dweL ling, 12 months’ hard labour; Franko Marcovina, for making a false declaration. was fined £lO, in default six months’ gaol; Sylvia Mary Flynn, aged 22, domestic, on charges of making a false oath, was ordered to come up in two years. WELLINGTON SESSIONS [ Per Press Association ] WELLINGTON, May 25. Stanley Winwood McKissick Reid, found guilty of assault with intent to commit a serious offence, was sentenced by Air. Justice Blair at the Supreme Court to-day to reformative detention not exceeding seven years. NEW PLYMOUTH SESSIONS. [ Per Press Association. ] NEW PLYMOUTH, May 23. In the Supreme Court to-day before' Mr. .Justice Smith, a true bill was returned against Edwiu Edwards, a single man, aged 58, charged with indecent assault. Edwards was found guilty and remanded for sentence The ■ jury was out. almost four hours.