APPEAL CASES.
SEVERAL SENTENCES VARIED. WELLINGTON, October 4. On November 2, 1939, Henry William Mosen was sentenced by the Supreme Court at Wanganui and fined £l7 on a charge of failing to observe the ; right-hand rule and thereby causing bodily harm. At. the same time his driver’s licence was cancelled for two'years. The Court of Appeal today, on the application of Mosen, Varied the cancellation of the licence by reducing it from two years 1 to one year. The Court also varied the sentences imposed by the Supreme Court on Oswald Oliver Wall flick, at Auckland, on August 2, 1940. Wahrlick was then sentenced to 18 months reformative detention on a charge of recklessly driving a motor-car and thereby causing bodily injury, and to 18 months’ reformative detention on charges of theft and unlawful conversion of a motor-car, the sentences to be cumulative. The Court to-day varied the sentence on the charge of reckless driving to 18 ninths’ hard labour, to be followed by 18 months’ reformative detention, the other sentence of reformative detention to stand and be served concurrently.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 308, 5 October 1940, Page 8
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