Read the full judgment text of CACC 000305/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 2 May 1979.
1. The two appellants, now man and wife, each appeal against sentences of 12 months' imprisonment imposed following their conviction on a charge of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception. The couple had organised, and sold tickets for, a dinner and ball at the Excelsior Hotel, a function apparently upon some scale since the bill totalled more than $31,000. They did not pay the Excelsior and in fact whilst the dinner was in progress on 4th December, 1977, they were flying to New Zealand.