CORRIGAN GETS TWO YEARS
[Per Press Association.—Copyright J DUNEDIN, This Day.
Two years’ imprisonment, with hard labour, was the sentence imposed on Richard Corrigan in -the Supreme Court yesterday on a charge of manslaughter of George Stewart Neish at Palmerston North on August 26. In passing judgment, Mr Justice Kennedy said that he took into account the fact that prisoner had liquor and that the crime probably would not have been committed had not deceased and his companion gone to prisoner’s home with liquor, the crime being a sequel to a more or less drunken struggle. At the same time, prisoner had, in a cowardly, manner, kicked deceased when he was down,
The judge adopted the jury’s strong recommendation for mercy.
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Northern Advocate, 23 October 1936, Page 7
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