SUPREME COURT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 275, 19 November 1937, Page 11

SUPREME COURT

HAMILTON SESSIONS [ Per Press Association. ] HAMILTON, Nov. 18. Two prisoners were sentenced in the Supreme Court at Hamilton this morning by Mr Justice Callan for indecent assault. Robert Henry Briggs, aged 28. who was found guilty yesterday of such an offence at Te Aroha, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. Thomas George Ward, ;aged 48, who pleaded guilty to a similar charge, the offence having taken place at Te Kuiti, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. WELLINGTON SESSIONS [ Per Press Association. J WELLINGTON, Nov. 18. Prisoners sentenced by the Chief Justice Sir M. Myers, were Frederick Jennings, aged 20, labourer, for assault with intent to commit a serious offence, three years at a borstal; Maxwell Ernest Butler, aged 25, mechanic, for unlawful conversion of a motor-car at Hamilton, two years’ reformative detention, concurrent with the 12 months’ reformative detention now being served; George Clarence Wilson, aged 42, clerk, and cook, for forging a postal note, 15 months’ reformative detention; Arthur Haig, aged 2b, shoe finisher, for failing to stop after an accident, two charges, fined £2O on the first and admitted to two years’ probation on the second. The Judge said that if prisoner were a person of mature years he would not hesitate to send him to gaol. Thu provisions of last year’s Act were being enforced in the Supreme Court and Magistrate’s Court. Prisoner was prohibited from driving during his probation and ordered to pay the the costs of the prosecution, £2 ss. Revel Michalick, picture operator, Danncvirke, for indecent assault on a female at Raetihi, four charges, was sentenced to 15 months’ reformative detention.