PENAL SERVITUDE
SENTENCE IN LONDON
MANSLAUGHTER VERDICT ;
(Received May 22, 11.45 a.m.) • LONDON, May 21.
Charged with the murder of Mrs. May Godby last March, Albert Boddy, was found guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced to three years' penal servitude: ,
Mr. Justice Singleton, in summing up, said:—"May it not be that this was a case of reckless shooting jin the direction of the woman rather than with the intention of killing her or of doing her grievous bodily harm? If this is the truth, it is manslaughter and not murder." ' .'..■■'
Mrs. Godby, aged 36, wife of Major Robert Godby, retired, was shot dead after a wedding'reception at -which they were guests at' a hotel. She collapsed at the feet of her husband, with whom' she was seated at. a table playing dominoes., A fellow-guest, Albert Boddy, 31, a bricklayer, was charged with , murder. Major and' -Mrs. Godby "had 'returned only a few days previously from New Zealand after a year's visit to Major Godby's mother.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 120, 22 May 1937, Page 9
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165PENAL SERVITUDE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 120, 22 May 1937, Page 9
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