PERJURY CASE.
Three Year*’ Hard Labour Imposed. COMMENT BY JUDGE. Per Press Association, AUCKLAND, November 3. A sentence of three years’ hard labour was passed by Mr Justice Herdman today on Ernest Cheadle, who had been found guilty of perjury. The Judge said that it was necessary to impose a salutary sentence. He did not propose the waste time by uttering platitudes about keeping the wells of justice pure, for everyone knew that unless witnesses were honest justice could not be done. The prisoner had given evidence in an action for damages, and declared that he saw the accident, whereas he was not there at all. He had played a part in conspiring to defraud an insurance company, and had misled a jury. His Honor said that, he hoped that the result of these proceedings would make it plain to others who might be inclined to do as prisoner had done, that the misleading of a Court of justice was followed by serious consequences.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 601, 3 November 1932, Page 9
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164PERJURY CASE. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 601, 3 November 1932, Page 9
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