SENTENCE VARIED
APPEAL COURT DECISION. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Court of Appeal delivered judgment today in an appeal against sentence brought by Douglas Henry Colin Baker on March 22. Baker had been sentenced at Palmerston North in February. 1936, by Mr Justice Blair to seven years' hard labour for the offences of conspiring to commit arson and counselling and procuring the commission of that crime. The sentence was varied on each count to five years’ hard labour, to be followed by two years' reformative detention, the sentence to be concurrent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 8
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90SENTENCE VARIED Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 8
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