ONE YEAR’S GAOL
Dismissal Of Appeal “The notice of appeal is full of good resolutions but contains no real grounds for interfering with the sentence. The appellant has a very bad list and his actions resulted in the destruction of a car valued at £280,” said Mr C. M. Roper in the Supreme Court yesterday. Mr Justice Richmond dismissed an appeal by William Richard Calder, aged 23, against a sentence of one year’s imprisonment imposed in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court on a charge of car conversion. The appellant appeared on his own behalf. “You have been given leniency in the past and have been involved in conversion before,” said his Honour. “The Courts will not go on extending leniency time after time. I thoroughly agree with the sentence imposed. You have reached a stage in your life where you will be well advised to consider where you are going to end up. If you have not got enough character to change now you are going to spend a lot of your life in prison.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29469, 22 March 1961, Page 21
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174ONE YEAR’S GAOL Press, Volume C, Issue 29469, 22 March 1961, Page 21
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