FOUR YEARS’ PRISON FOR RAPE
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 21. “This is a bad case,” said the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary, in the Supreme Court today in sentencing Albert Frederick Beauchamp, aged 24, soldier, to four years’ reformative detention for rape. “Originally the punishment for rape was hard labour for life with provision for a flogging.” said His Honour. “We know that the penalty of flogging no longer persists, but I think this is a case where the court would have considered it seriously."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23083, 22 October 1949, Page 6
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84FOUR YEARS’ PRISON FOR RAPE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23083, 22 October 1949, Page 6
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