LIFE SENTENCE.
STRANGE LEGAL DILEMMA. By Cable-—Pre3s Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Ass.icliuADELAIDE, March 30. A curious position developed in the Criminal Court. When four men were found guiJtv of robbery with violence, -Mr Justice Parsons pointed out that the Act whereunder Die men wore convicted, which bad been amended during tlie last session of Parliament, provided a maximum .penalty of imprisonment for life, and a minimum of three years’ hard labour, with a whipping. In the Act, as amended, the words “or for any term not loss than throe years’ hard labour” bad been omitted. He therefore had no alternative but to inflict a life sentence.
The Crown Prosecutor said the omission of the words quoted was obviously a mistake, which would bo brought under the notice of the Government.
Mr Justice Parsons undertook to make the necessary recommendations regarding punishment li 0 would have inflicted had he had discretionary power.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 31 March 1926, Page 9
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151LIFE SENTENCE. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 31 March 1926, Page 9
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