TWO YEARS IN JAIL
Penalty for Manslaughter By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, October 22. Sentence of two years’ hard labour was imposed on Richard Corrigan, aged 51, ou a charge of manslaughter of George Stuart Neish at Palmerston on August 26. In passing sentence, Mr. Justice Kennedy said he took into account the fact that the prisoner had had liquor and that the crime would probably not have been committed had not the deceased and a companion gone to the prisoner’s home with liquor, the crime being a sequel to a more or less drunken struggle. At the same time the prisoner had kicked the deceased in a cowardly way when down. The sentence adopted the jury’s strong recommendation to mercy.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 24, 23 October 1936, Page 10
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120TWO YEARS IN JAIL Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 24, 23 October 1936, Page 10
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