THREE YEARS’ HARD LABOUR FOR GRAVE CRIME
"This is one of the gravest crimes, and it is only because the court attaches weight to the previous good record of the prisoner that I am Imposing what is a lenient sentence," said Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court, Wanganui, yesterday when he sentenced Thomas Lambert King, aged 37, married, to three years hard labour, concurrent, on each of two charges of incest. King had been found guilty by a jury on Tuesday. Counsel for King, Mr. C. N. Armstrong, in a plea for leniency, said that according to the medical evidence which had been submitted to the court, concussion which King had suffered as the result of an accident might hove caused him to lose control of himself.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 November 1946, Page 7
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