CORRESPONDENCE.
The' Cruelty Case,
[TO THE EDITOR.]
Sir, —Have not the Justices who heard the Mauricovillo cruelty case committed a grave error in dealing summarily with the offenders when it was in their power to send them for trial to a higher Court? It is true that the depositions wero not taken at the comipencernent of tho case, b t the shocking brutality revealed by the evidence fully justified the Bench in beginning the proceedings de novo. I am confident that there is not a man or woman in tho community who has not been horrified by the revelations made, and none who will bo satisfied with the sentence inflicted by the Bench, As a deterrent to this class of crime, which is becoming too prevalent in the Colony, the Magistrates should either have inflicted the full penalty of the law or committed the accuse)} to take their tria|< lam, etc, ''' '' : ■ ! " ,: " ' ,, i' ? - Justice, j
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4193, 16 August 1892, Page 2
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154CORRESPONDENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4193, 16 August 1892, Page 2
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