Farmer Sentenced For Indecency
Cecil John Palmer, aged 47, a farmer, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Mr Justice Richmond in the Supreme Court yesterday on a charge of committing an unnatural offence. Mr C. M. Roper appeared for the Crown and Mr R. J. de Goldi for Palmer. Palmer had no previous convictions and had a respect for law and order. He had lived a lonely life involving nothing but hard work, said Mr de Goldi, asking for clemency. Psychiatrists had reported that Palmer was most unlikely to repeat' the offence. His Honour said he felt sorry for Palmer but it was the Court’s duty to mark the community’s disapproval of such an abhorrent crime.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29378, 3 December 1960, Page 4
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