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AN UNWITTING REMARK SENTENCING* X" PRISONER. Three years* treatment in a Borstal institution was the punishment meted out to a youth at the Magistrate’s CouTt yesterday, when he appeared to answer ten charges of unlawfully converting motor vehicles to his own use. When the sentence of the court was announced, counsel for the accused unwittingly inquired’: “That is concurrent, I presume?” There was no necessity for the magistrate’s affirmative remark for, had the sentence been accumulative the term of imprisonment would have aggregated thirty years. Twenty-one years is the minimum life, sentence! The superfluous nature of the remark was appreciated by the legal fraternity.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12527, 17 August 1926, Page 3
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105SUPERFLUOUS! New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12527, 17 August 1926, Page 3
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