FAILURE OF APPEAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 70, 22 February 1932, Page 8

FAILURE OF APPEAL.

JUDGE DOUBLES FINE. Having heard evidence in an appeal by a man from a magistrate’s decision fining him £25 for carrying an unlicensed pistol, Judge Curlewis, at a Sydney Court lately, ordered the fine to be doubled, and in addition imposed a sentence of six months’ imprisonment. Arthur Brent, aged 28, a labourer, appealed against a fine of £25, imposed by Mr Fletcher, S.M. Appellant ■stated that when arrested, he was proceeding to a birthday party with a woman, who, he said, had handed him the revolver to mind, and that she had told him she had been keeping it because of her husband’s threats. His Honour: You deserve two years for being such a fool as to take the revolver into vour charge. Appellant also said that he had just been released from Long Bay after serving a sentence of seven years for breaking and entering. Evidence was given by the woman that her father brought the revolver from -France during the war, having obtained it while removing some wounded from a house which had been shelled j ncreas€ j the penalty to £SO, in default 100 days, and in addition imposed a sentence of six months’ imprisonment.