HC Deb 27 August 1880 vol 256 c361
MR. DICK-PEDDLE

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been drawn to the case of James Bell, a miner, aged 17, who, having been charged on the 18th inst. before the Justice of Peace Court at Airdrie with stealing a turnip from a field, and having pleaded guilty, stating that he was out of work and led to commit the theft by hunger, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour; and, if so, whether it is intended to order the remission of the remainder of the sentence?

SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,

in reply, said, that he had considered the matter in consultation with the Lord Advocate, and the sentence to which the hon. Member referred would be remitted.