A SEVERE SENTENCE.
TO THB EDITOR OF THE PRRSS. Sir, —I think it i 3 a very reprehensible thing for the defending advocate of prisoners to endeavour to besmirch the names of the presiding justices becauee they have done what they conceived to be their duty. Of
the merits of the case in question I know nothing • but I should think the New Zealand bar would not feel proud of a colleague who parades his own employed and biassed opinions in the newspapers because lie conceives a sentence unfair. Methinks there is an appeal from justices' decisions provided, and I protest against a cheap advertisement of this kind as an unwarrantable attack upon good citizens by one whose legal instincts should surely"lead him to seek for justice, not in a newspaper controversy, but in a higher Court.—Yours, &c, Fair Play.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9816, 27 August 1897, Page 3
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140A SEVERE SENTENCE. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9816, 27 August 1897, Page 3
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