APPEAL COURT
SENTENCE FOR RAPE REDUCED
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WELLINGTON, December 10. The Court of Appeal, to-day heard the application made oiv behalf of John Christie Spence, of Dunedin, for leave to appeal from the sentence imposed upon him at Dunedin, by Air. Justice Kennedy on October 30, when lie was found guilty upon two charges of rape and sentenced, to seven years imprisonment, with a flogging,' on . onecharge, and seven years’ imprisonment on the other, the sentences to be concurrent. In lengthy defence counsel for accuscd pleaded for leniency, referring to the facts of the case as suggesting the sentence imposed was too severe. After a- short retirement, the Court delivered judgment, reducing , tlie sentence to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour, and a flogging!' The Chief Justice said that if they
did not uphold flogging, they would be treating Section 212 of the Crimes Act as a dead letter, and that they were not prepared* totter -*
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1934, Page 5
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