SENTENCES LIGHTENED.
APPEAL COURT DECISION. (By Telcgranli.—press Association.') WELLINGTON, Friday. Tile Court of Appeal to-day reduced Hie sentence imposed on Frederick Thomas McCormick, at Welllnglon, by the Chief Justice, of ten years’ imprisonment with hard labour, on charges of unnatural offences, to one jof seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour. The Court also varied the sentences of three years’ hard labour on a charge of robbery, and six months’ bard labour on a charge of breaking, entering and theft, passed on Adrien Ghcnot at Christchurch, by making the sentences concurrent instead of cumui l&live.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19639, 27 July 1935, Page 7
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