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1. The Appellant appeals against a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment imposed upon him for burglary. He was stopped by a party of police at about 10.30 at night because he was acting in a suspicious manner. He was searched and found to be carrying a radio set wrapped in newspaper. He thereupon admitted that he had broken into a house in Portland Street at about 9.40 or 10.00 o'clock. Having forced open the door he stole the radio from the flat. He further admitted that on a previous occasion in