JUDGE AND PSYCHIATRISTS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. “I am never much impressed with psychiatrists. I am inclined to believe we are all endowed with self-control and free will, if the free will needs to be toned up by fear then it is my duty to do it,” said Mr Justice Callan when sentencing a prisoner in the Supreme Court today. His Honor added that if a psychiatrist convinced him that a person was so afflicted that, though not irresponsible for his crimes m law, he really practically could not help doing them, then it would be his plain duty to protect society and put such a person away for the longest period the law would allow.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 February 1948, Page 4
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