JUDGE NOT IMPRESSED
EVIDENCE OF MENTALITY (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 25 “I am never much impressed with psychiatrists. I am inclined to believe that we are all endowed with self control and free will and if 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 Honour added that if a psychiatrist convinced him that a person was a'flicted that, though irresponsible for his crimes in law, he really and 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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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22571, 26 February 1948, Page 6
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