HEWER SENTENCED
PLEA BY COUNSEL
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day.
George Frederick Hewer was sentenced by Mr. Justice Fair to two and a half years' hard labour for unlawfully causing a noxious drug to be taken with intent.
Counsel for prisoner, Mr. R. A. Singer, said that it was to be remembered that the whole burden of the offence had been somewhat cruelly placed on the shoulders of Hewer. There were a number of self-confessed accomplices, among them two women who not only had been protected by the authorities but'whose names had been suppressed. The whole spirit of legal revenge had been concentrated on Hewer.
"Different opinions held by various sections of society as to the gravity of this class of offence must be disregarded by me," said the Judge in passing sentence. "I must consider only the provisions of the Crimes Act."
His Honour took into account the fact that the prisoner had already been imprisoned for three months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 110, 5 November 1935, Page 10
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