§ 58. Captain CUNNINGHAM-REIDasked the Attorney-General whether his attention has been drawn to a recent case in which a man, guilty of a fraud on the customs of about £22, thereby became liable to a fine of £2,500 or 10 years' imprisonment; and whether, in view of this and similar cases, he will consider an amendment of the present law in order to make the punishment fit the crime?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Duff Cooper)I am having inquiry made into the circumstances of the particular case to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers, and will communicate with him in due course.
§ Captain CUNNINGHAM-REIDShould not the fitting of the punishment to the crime be the object sublime?