SENTENCES ALTERED
APPEAL COURT DECISIONS [by telegraph—press association] WELLINGTON, Thursday The Appeal Court to-day varied the sentence on Robert Dixon, sentenced at Napier on October 2G, 19135, to two years' reformative detention and declared an habitual criminal, by cancelling the declaration that Dixon was an habitual criminal. Otherwise the sentence stands. On the application for a variation of sentence by William Joseph Gee, who was sentenced to seven years' hard labour and declared an habitual criminal at - Wellington on May 20 last on charges of breaking, entering and theft, car conversion and receiving, the Court varied the sentences by reducing them in so far as they exceeded J8 months to 18 months' hard labour, to be concurrent with each'other, but cumulative with the sentence of four years' hard labour which the prisoner was serving at the time of the sentence. The declaration of the prisoner as an habitual criminal stands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22776, 9 July 1937, Page 15
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