of a second:
felony; and, as Chief Judge
of that Court, I made it
impose
by
a.
the severest penalty
The law for
any
rule to
allowed
second conviction
for ordinary robbery, and for the first or other conviction for burglary
.6.
No doubt there is
a
great
inducement here for the Magistrates
to avoid the recognized mode of dealing with old offenders; and I
do not attach the smallest blame to
The able and experienced gentlemen
who have been
forced
to
carry
it
out were
compelled.
in a facile sustene. The
deportation laws which
were
as the then Chief Justice recently pointed out:
prepared
for a totally
different purpose, have been used to furnish larcenies and to relieve the overcrowded-cell of the Gaol. One of the returns appended by the Captain Superintendent of Police to his Report— ending in 1876, which he presented to Sir Arthur Kennedy in January shows that the deportation of this class of criminals is no real protection to the Community; and that the prisoner who has been repeatedly punished with inadequate sentences returns from deportation to resume his robberies. My
few mention here completely confirm
experience.
the evidences on this subject laid in 1876
accumu...