GAOL FOR MRS. KOERBIN
POISONED HUSBAND’S FOOD
“FORTUNATE,”SAYS JUSTICE SIM
Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. MARION KOERBIN, aged 43, who was found guilty in the Supreme Court of attempting to administer .poison with intention to injure or annoy her husband, Herbert Ivoerbin, was sentenced by Mr. Justiee Sim tbis m.orning to three months’ imprisonment. Mr. Sievwright pointed out that the prisoner that the jury telt justified in jury had made a strong recommenda- ™ tion to mercy. The pi isoner had an the jury’s recommendation as far as unblemished record and had been a possible. It seemed clear that prisoner good mother to her children. A severe would have to undergo a term of imsentence as a deterrent was hardly prisonment. necessary from the public point of In fixing the term he would take into view, as the crime was not a common consideration the fact that she had one. been in custody since her arrest on His Honour said it was fortunate for June 26.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 1
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