NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED
A new act of the Imperial Parliament which is designed to prevent a man enjoying the fruits-of a .robbery after Ins release from prison, was made use of for the first time at the Old Bailey, London last month. A porter was found guilty of stealing a £2OOO necklace and some diamond rings from a jeweller’s shop in GreatPortia nd-street, and was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. The Common "Sergeant told prisoner that sentence would no doubt be modified if he gave information which led to some of the stolen jewels being recovered “1 shall also order you, under the new Act, to pay the costs of the prosecution, or remain in -custody until they are paid, ho added. " . “After thp five.years?” prisoner inqiu-, “Yes,” the Common Sergeant replied. ' The act under which the judge made the order as to the costs of the prosecution, is named the .Costs in Criminal Cases Act, and came -into force on January 1. . J.t empowers the court to order the costs of a successful prosecutor to bo borne bv the prisoner, or the costs of an acquitted prisoner to uo borne by the prosecutor.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2490, 1 May 1909, Page 3
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197NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2490, 1 May 1909, Page 3
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