HABITUAL CRIMINAL’S APPEAL
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 19. The Court of Appeal to-day gave judgment in the case concerning the declaration of Norman Paul Nesbitt as an habitual criminal on an application by the prisoner for leave to appeal against the sentence. Mr G. G. G Watson submitted that the prisoner had twice been declared an habituab criminal without legal justification on either occasion. Mr A E. Currie, for the Crown, agreed that the original declaration made by Mr Justice Ostler at Palmerston North in February, 1937, was not legally justified, and the Court in its judgment held this to be so. The second declaration by Mr Justice Smith in September, 1944, was held by the Appeal Court to be good, and the Court directed that a copy of the judgment be sent to the prisoner.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24906, 20 June 1946, Page 3
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