REFORMATIVE DETENTO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 284, 4 December 1935, Page 6

REFORMATIVE DETENTO

A JUDGE'S COMMEffII [ Per Piess Associitk*-1 I CH IiISTCHLRCB. M Interesting observations on J pliction of sentences of rel3 l detention were made by Mr. ■ Northcroft in a reserved rl dealing with an applicationfij view nf ihe sentence impwjj son by Mr. Ma unsell, S.Jki prisoner who had been cor.W stealing money he had reren -1 half of the Nelson Relie. u Social Committee. . j| In reducing the sentence Sidney George Hall from reformtive detention. Hu J stated that power to order J in excess of the prescribed periods of imprisonment ployed o I stances and where there ■ strongest reason to results for th- offender. J' ’1 n.ent the present case d.- ■ 1 those exceptional prosper ■ habilitation whi--h alone ■ a sentence in excess of JO J maximum. “In my (I P I^11 . five detention should n°‘ to for the inqmsition of o of imprisonment than k—maximum because the o one,” said the Judge. 00 offender has a bad J ment this present case veal those exceptional rehabilitation whi'h •“ jB justify a ■ ' ■ statutory m.'i vinuini. r°' I consider an apP«>l®FJ should have been one o - with hard’ln hour for J tion 5 of the , provides that every by a magistrate to ap tive detention may a Judge of the Bnp r view that sentence, «” may thereupon the sentenc.- or red « tertain doubts as authority ’ ,hP 1 a sentence or and for its re l' ,ace *? I'J of imprisonment v.m M these cir I order for a n r of two years’ r^ or ' T ' ) i e on of reformative ~ j period of six S