"BIT OF A GEM"
plea for leniency STOLEN CIGARS RECEIVED In spite of the contention that the nontcuce of five years' penal servitude was a "crushing one," the London Criminal Appeal court dismissed an appeal by John Humber against that term passed on him at the Old Bailey for receiving 20,000 stolen cigars. Mr. ' Justice Branson characterised tho ground of appeal put forward by Htimber as "a bit of a gem." Huniber, his lordship remarked, had a grievance, and that was, that he should not have received such a heavy sentence when the "master mind" wa9 still lihcaught. . "We know, however," added the Judge, "that Humber fias already been to penal servitude, and was on licence he committed the present crime. not think the sentence too - •evere, and the appeal fails."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22955, 5 February 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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