Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1912 — Balked of Prison Sentence. [ARTICLE]

Balked of Prison Sentence.

At York city quarter sessions recently a prisoner who pleaded guilty to a. charge of theft from a shop was shown to have gone straight to the police station, stating that he committed the robbery in order that he might be sent to jail, and so have shelter for the winter. The recorder held the taking the goods with that Intent was not a crime, and, as the prisoner refused to withdraw his plea of guilty, imposed the nominal penalty of one day’s imprisonment - London Tit-' Bits. f