OBSCENE LIBEL CASE
SENTENCE ON DE MONTALK QUESTION OF REVIEW. LONDON, March 21. Sir Herbert Samuel (Home Secretary), in answer to a question in the House of Commons suggesting a review of the sentence on de Montalk, said he could not consider the case in view of the application already made for appeal to the Lords.
Geoffrey de Montalk, a lecturer - , was sentenced at the Old Bailey to six months’ imprisonment in the second division on a charge of obscene libel. Accused said he was a New Zealand-born Briton. His appeal was dismissed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21601, 23 March 1932, Page 7
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93OBSCENE LIBEL CASE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21601, 23 March 1932, Page 7
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