SENTENCES VARIED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 3, 29 September 1943, Page 6

SENTENCES VARIED

Review By Court Of Appeal The Court of Appeal yesterday heard 11 appeals 'by prisoners against sentences im-nosed on them. , Patrick James Houlihan, who had been sentenced to two years’ hard labour at Timaru in July last for theft and common assault, had his term reduced to one year on the theft charge and six months on the assault charge, to be served conCU OHver Edward Wright, labourer, aged 115 who had been sentenced to three years’ hard labour and three years reformative detention, the terms to be cumulative, at Auckland in June last for indecent assaults on girls at Otumoetai, near Tauranga, aud his sentence varied to four vears’ reformative detention on each of ' the two charges, to be served concurrently. James Henry Hammond, salesman, .aged 37, who had been sentenced by Mr. Justice Johnston to nine months’ imprisonment in 'May last for lhe theft at Wellington of a subcase and its contents, of a total value of £5, had his sentence reduced to six months’ hard labour. Frederick John Wormaid. labourer, aged 48. sentenced at Timaru in July last io two years' hard labour for theft and assault, had his term reduced to one year for theft and six months for assault, to be served concurrently. fjeven appeals were dismissed.