Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000875/2007 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 December 2007.
1. The broad complaint that the Magistrate had passed a sentence based on the Appellant’s previous convictions rather than on the facts of the present case was not justified. Of course a court must not allow an offender’s bad criminal record to result in a sentence of any severity disproportionate to the gravity of the offence or offences for which it is sentencing him. But a bad criminal record can increase the punishment that an offender deserves after due account is taken of any matter or m
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