Read the full judgment text of CACC 000596/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 1 September 1969.
1. The appellant, a hawker aged 22, pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him of wounding. He was originally sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. He applied for a review of that sentence and Mr. Sanguinetti then appeared for him and appears now before this Court. On the review, the learned magistrate reduced the sentence for 18 months to 9 months. Despite that fact, the appellant still appeals to this Court against the sentence of 9 months' imprisonment on the grounds that it was too s