COURT OF APPEAL
•SENTENCES REVIEWED
TWO REDUCED
(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. July 15.
The Appeal Court to-day heard a number of Appeals from Christchurch against sentences in criminal cases. In that of S. -Millar, a youth of 21, who was sentenced to five years for for attempted rape, the Court found that while the circumstances were disgraceful, they showed that the whole -affair was -a drunken spree and that there was- no compulsion on the girl concerned. The sentence was reduced to 10 months’ hard labour. The next case was that of F. J. Smith, who was sentenced to five years’ for rape. The Court held that the.facts were not so gross as to warrant the sentence, and reduced it to two years. The third was that of A. G. Fargon, found guilty of causing the death of a person unnamed while driving a motor car without holding a license. The judge reserved a question of law whether the accused was- ipso facto guilty of manslaughter. The Court was of the opinion that he was not. and directed that reply to be conveyed to the Court below, so that sentence- could l>e passed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 16 July 1927, Page 5
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