Sentences Reduced By Appeal Court

Northern Advocate, 4 October 1947, Page 7

Sentences Reduced By Appeal Court

tp.A J WELLINGTON, This Bay. Decisions were given by the Court of Appeal yesterday in a number of cases from Auckland. William Court was sentenced at Auckland for robbery with violence and theft from the person by Mr Justice Blair to three years’ hard labour on the robbery charge and six months' hard labour on the theft charge, the sentences to be concurrent. The sentence on the second count was quashed, as the offence was included in the offence of robbery charged in the first count. The appeal was otherwise dismissed. Sampson Robert Cleland, sentenced for theft by Mr Justice Callan to 12 months' impi'isonment with hard labour, followed by two years’ reformative detention, with an habitual criminal warning, had his sentence reduced to one year's hard labour, followed by one year’s reformative detention.

Phillip Patrick Hallmond, sentenced for thett by Mr Justice Blair to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour, had his sentence varied to two years’ reformative detention.

Joseph Zam, sentenced for receiving stolen property by Mr Justice Callan to three years’ reformative detention, had his sentence reduced to two years' reformative detention.