CONVICTED OF FORGERY
SOLICITOR SENTENCED TO REFORMATIVE DETENTION (Per Press Association) ANCKLAND, To-day. At the Supreme Court to-day a sentence of three years’ reformative ■detention, to be cnocurrent with the term he is now serving, was imposed on the solicitor, John Henry Victor Mansill, by Justice Macgregor, on a -charge of forging a memorandum of mortgage for £6OO and causing it to be acted upon as genuine. Mansill is at present serving a .sentence of four years’ reformative detention.
It was stated that this forgery was one of those acts incidental to misappropriation for which Mansill previously had been tried and sentenced. Mr Meredith, Crown Solicitor, said the real reason for the charge was to assist a civil action for the removal •of the transfer from the register. His Honour said that had the new ■charge been brought before Justice Blair when the other charges were, lie thought that the sentence would Rave been heavier.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 225, 25 June 1928, Page 5
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