§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has now considered the case of Ernest John King, who at the last Lancaster Assizes was sentenced by Mr. Justice Day to five years' penal servitude for bigamy; and whether he has seen his way to recommend a mitigation of the sentence.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTMy attention has not been called to this case before, but I find, on reference to the calendar, that Ernest John King's sentence is not as stated in the honourable Member's Question—five years' penal servitude—but four months' imprisonment with hard labour.