DEFINITION. OF AN "HABITUAL CRIMINAL."
[BS TELEGBAPH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 16th Nov. A point which may have an important bearing on the question whether a criminal comes within the definition of "an habitual criminal" cropped up in the Supreme Court this morning. A prisoner before the Court had just been convicted of false pretences and forging and uttering, and his record, an extremely bad one, was put in his Honour's hand when sentence was to be passed. His Honour remarked that a number of convictions detailed on the record had taken place in Melbourne, and there was no proof of their accuracy. He thought that there should be some system of proving Australian convictions. The Crown Prosecutor remarked that New Zealand convictions were sufficient to bring the prisoner within the definition. His Honour replied that while that was so, he would have liked to have been further fortified by the Melbourne record before taking the step he proposed to take...
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 120, 17 November 1909, Page 2
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