HABITUAL CRIMIALS
IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION. Brass Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 25. As a consequence of the decision of 16 judges (who by a majority allowed the appeal and quashed tho conviction or Charles Leslie Norman, who had been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for burglary and uttering a forged document, to be followed by five years preventive detention as an habitual criminal) the judges disagreed on the question whether a man once convicted of being ai> habitual criminal must always afterwards be regarded as one in law. Irifty-six convicts have petitioned against sentences passed on them as habitual criminals. The Home Secretary released seven and rejected the claims of the others. The news of the judgment spread through the prisons throughout the country in a most remarkable way.—A. and. NiZ. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19259, 25 August 1924, Page 7
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