APPEAL AGAINST GAOL ALLOWED
Corrective Training Term Imposed (New Zealand Press Association! WELLINGTON, July 7. In a reserved judgment delivered today, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal brought by Peter John Palmer, against two sentences of three years’ imprisonment, the two terms to be served concurrently, imposed by Mr Justice Haslam in the Supreme Court at Wellington on June 10, 1960, for shopbreaking and countinghouse breaking. The president of the Court of Appeal (Mr Justice K. M. Gresson) said that there could be no doubt that the two crimes for which tile appellant had been sentenced called for a severe penalty, the more so because, in one of them, an attempt had been made to open a safe With explosives. “There can be no doubt that a sentence of corrective training is appropriate in this case,” he said. “We have carefully considered what sentence would be appropriate.” Accordingly, the appeal was allowed, the sentence of three years’ imprisonment quashed and a sentence of corrective training imposed. Mr D. S. Castle appeared for the successful appellant, and Mr W. R. Birks for the Crown,
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29251, 8 July 1960, Page 7
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