SENTENCES VARIED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 9, 5 October 1940, Page 5

SENTENCES VARIED

Judgments Of Court Of Appeal

The Court of Appeal, comprising the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers). Mr Justice Blair, Mr. Justice Kennedy, and Mr. Justice Northcroft, in a reserved judgment yesterday, varied the sentence imposed upon Oswald Oliver Wahrlieh at Auckland on August 22. Wahrlieh had been sentenced to 18 months’ reformative detention for theft and unlawful conversion of a motor-car, and to 18 months for recklessly driving a motorcar and causing injury. The Court of Appeal varied the sentence on the charge of reckless driving causing bodily injury from 18 months’ reformative detention to 18 months’ hard labour, to be followed by 18 months’ reformative detention. The sentences of 18 months’ reformative detention on each of the other charges were ordered to stand, and to run concurrently with each other, and with the term of 18 months’ reformative detention which, is to follow the hard labour sentence on the charge of reckless driving causing bodily injury. Sentence Reduced. fn the case of Henry William Mown, whose driver's licence was cancelled for two years, and who was fined £l7 at Wanganui on November 2, 1939, for fading to observe the right-hand rule of the road, thereby causing bodily harm to Kenneth Fitzgerald, the period of disqualification was reduced from two years to one year.