JUDGES DISAGREE.
MEANING OF HABITUAL CRIMINAL. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Aug. 23. In consequence of the decision of 13 judges, who by a majority allowed the conviction of Charles Leslie Norman, sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for burglary and uttering a forged document, to be followed by five years’ preventive detention as an habitual criminal (the judges disagreed on the question of w’hether a man once convicted of being an habitual criminal must always afterwards be regarded as one in law), 56 convicts petitioned against sentences passed as habitual criminals. The Home Secretary released seven, and rejected the claims of the others. The news of the judgment spread through the prisons throughout the country in a most- remarkable way!
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 August 1924, Page 5
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120JUDGES DISAGREE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 August 1924, Page 5
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