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1. It is urged upon us that we should not lightly interfere with the sentence passed by the learned judge, and that is true: we should dismiss the application unless satisfied that the sentence was wrong in principle or manifestly inadequate. For my part I have hesitated to say that a sentence of eight months' imprisonment suspended for eighteen months (and it seems that that was the sentence passed on all the charges except Charge 9, although the Application and other papers before us indicate