LIFE IMPRISONMENT
NEILING SENTENCED. (Press Assn.) WELLINGTON. May 15. After a retirement of four hours' and a-half including a tea adjournment of an hour the jury in the Supreme Court, Wellington, to-night returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter against Leonard Nciling, brushmaker, aged 29, whose trial for the murder ot Marjorie Livingston Horton commenced on Monday. The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) sentenced Neiling to imprisonment tor life.
After prisoner had left the dock His Honour explained to the jury that the sentence did not mean that the prisoner would remain in prison for life. It would depend on himself if he could, after a certain period, satisfy the Prisons Board that he was safe to bo at large and they would act accordingly. But in the meantime he,had a duty to protect the public from men of that kind.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 16 May 1941, Page 5
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141LIFE IMPRISONMENT Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 16 May 1941, Page 5
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