SENTENCE REDUCED
APPEAL IN CAVENETT CASE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 23rd November. The final stage of the Cavenett case. in which Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., said that be "would stop these appeals," took place in the Supreme Coiirt to-day, when the original appeal against the sentence of two months' imprisonment was heara. The allegation was that, Cavenett, when working on the steamer Trebartha, at Auckland, on 10th August, pillaged some socte from the cargo, Mr. Jostice Adams said that the accused had served three weeks, and he would take that into consideration. Mr. Sullivan (for accused): "Could yon not make it a fine?" His Honour: "It is a serious case, and the accused was in a position of trust. I cannot consider either a fine or probation. The accused will be sentenced to imprisonment lor one monfii. In effect, this means that the aentenea of two jnoßthshag-been.--.xetfewe- by <sD*mßeA."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1926, Page 9
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150SENTENCE REDUCED Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1926, Page 9
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