PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME.
SENTENCES DEFERRED.
STANDARD UNDER REVIEW.
Two prisoners were brought for sentence before Mr. Justice Salmond in the Supreme Court yesterday but sentence was deferred in each case, His Honor adopting this course in view of the fact that the whole of the proper'
standard of punishment was at present under consideration by the Court of Appeal. The two prisoners were Albert Litchwark, who had pleaded guilty to forgery, and Francis Whitehead, of the Hamilton district, who had pleaded guilty to incest. In respect'to Whitehead, the Grown Prosecutor, Mr. V. R. Meredith, said that prisoner had debauched his own child, who was between 13 and 14 years, over a period of at least a year. He was a man of idle habits and a hypocrite, for he had been connected with a church.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17845, 28 July 1921, Page 8
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