§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions in October last a man was sentenced by the Recorder (Mr. Digby Seymour) to a year's imprisonment and three whippings of twelve lashes each, one whipping to be inflicted at the beginning of the imprisonment, the second at the end of six months, and the third a week before the man's liberation; if so, what was the nature of the offence; what was the form of 156 the indictment; and under what statutory authority was the sentence imposed?
§ MR. MATTHEWSThe prisoner in this case was convicted of indecent offences towards three different women. The proceedings taken were under 5 George IV., c. 83, ss. 4 and 10. The Recorder subsequently recommended that the second and third whippings should not be inflicted, and this part of the sentence has been remitted.