MANSLAUGHTER CASE
SENTENCE OF SEVEN YEARS’ HARD LABOUR (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 5. A sentence of seven years’, hard labour was imposed by Mr. Justice Callan this morning on James Watson, aged 46, a ship’s greaser, who appeared for sentence after being found guilty on July 31 of the manslaughter of Peter King, a fellow greaser, aboard the motor-vessel Sussex by fatally stabbing him on July 9, when the ship was at sea between Panama and Auckland. His Honor said he had gone through the records of all appeals against sentences in the Court of Appeal in New Zealand for the last four years looking for cases that, one way or the other, bore a resemblance to the accused’s and' noting which sentences were imposed and sustained. In the result he thought it was proper that the sentence should be seven years.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 August 1946, Page 2
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141MANSLAUGHTER CASE Greymouth Evening Star, 5 August 1946, Page 2
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