PRISONERS AWAITING SENTENCE.
SHOULD THEY BE KEPT IX GAOL? ME, JUSTICE' EDWARDS'S VIEWS. |PHESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, September 2. Mr Justice Edwards to-day spoko of tho hardsliip inflicted on prisoners who. pleading guilty in tho lower Court, were kept in custody for sometimes two months awaiting the return of tho Judge for sentence. Ho realised 'that it was not expedient that persons who had pleaded guilty to serious offences should ho set at largo on bail, bub the alternative of keeping them in custody was also open to objection. He thought it desirable that the Magistrate who knew, all about the case , should have power to; sentence a prisoner subject to an appeal to a Judge with tho prospect of the sentence being either increased or reduced. His Honor added:—“X shall now- be away from Auckland for over two months. If we get the usual crop of three or four cases per week there will be a great number waiting for my return.” The Magistrate was quite callable of fixing, the sentence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 5
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171PRISONERS AWAITING SENTENCE. New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 5
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