Brooks Appeals In Court Against 12-Year Sentence
An. appeal against his sentence of 12 ydars- hard labour on a conviction for manslaughter was made by Chesley Lauchlan Brooks, aged 20, : formerly of Edgecumbe, to the Court of Appeal in Wellington. Brooks was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury when charged with murdering Frederick Stanley Hodson, dairy company bacteriologist, at Te Teko, on February 13. Appearing for Brooks, Mr L. P. Leary, said that penalties for manslaughter had ben less severe in similar cases and submitted that the circumstances of the conviction • suggested that, while a . nominal penalty was out of the question, the sentence of 12 years was unduly hard.
For the Crown, Mr W T H.. Cunningham contended that the charge against Brooks. was extremely serious, and that accused had been lucky to escape a conviction vOf murder. The judge, in sentencing Brooks, had undoubtedly carefully weighed the facts of the case.
Decision of the court was reserved.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 68, 12 July 1950, Page 5
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