SENTENCE COMMUTED
Jones Not to Hang N.S.W. CABINET DECISION SYDNEY, May 6. The Minister of Justice, Mr L. 0. Martin, announced in the Assembly today that Cabinet had recommended that the Executive Council commute tho ( death sentence “recorded’’ on Jones to imprisonment for the term of his natural life. Mr Martin said that the Government had given the fullest consideration to the fresh evidence brought forward on behalf of Jones and had also obtained tho opinion of three King’s Counsellors whether the recording of a death sentence was tantamount to a reprieve. One such opinion was that the Executive Council could legally and validly proceed either to carry out the death sentence or commute it. However, in all the surrounding circumstances, Cabinet had decided to recommend commutation of the death sentence. The Minister told the assembly that he had no statement to make with regard to Hickey.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 121, 6 May 1936, Page 9
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