THREE YEARS' HARD LABOUR
MAN SENTENCED AT WELLINGTON ILLEGAL USE OF INSTRUMENT fUnlted Press Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. Percy Reginald Speers, aged 42, draper, found guilty by a jury of illegally using an instrument to procure miscarriage, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr Justice Smith this morning. His Honour said the point of law to have been reserved for the Court of Appeal had been abandoned by counsel, who since yesterday had found decisions against it.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 May 1939, Page 6
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