Quarterly Summary
| Published date | 01 October 1955 |
| Date | 01 October 1955 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002201835501900412 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Quarterly Summary
(Extended reports
of
some
of
the cases here summarised
will be given in our next
issue-Ed.)
EVIDENCE OF "ASSOCIATING
WITH
THIEVES"
R.
v.
Whitby
In
this appeal against sentence of seven years' imprison-
ment
for housebreaking
and
larceny the Court of Criminal
Appeal said that the recorder appeared to have interrupted
once or twice in the course of evidence given by the Police
as to character, apparently because he thought
the
Police
were going to say
that
the appellant had been associating
with thieves and that that was not a matter about which they
should be allowed to give evidence.
The
Court
had stated
that
if in the proof of evidence handed to
the
court by a
police officer it is to be said that
the
accused associates
with bad characters the officer giving evidence
must
be
able to speak of this from his own knowledge.
The
sentence
was varied to one of four years' corrective training.
INCREASE OF SENTENCE FOR DRIVING
WHILE
DISQUALIFIED
R. v. Phillips
In
dismissing an appeal against sentence of
12
months'
imprisonment and
12
months' disqualification on three counts
of driving amotor van while disqualified,
the
Court increased
the
sentence by increasing the disqualification to three years.
The
appellant had simply ignored his previous disqualification
and
Parliament had treated
the
offence very seriously.
The
Court
thought
that
it was not
the
least use disqualifying
him
for
12
months because that would only disqualify him
for
the
time that he earned remission of his prison sentence.
The
Court
had given leave to appeal in this case because it
wanted quarter sessions to remember
that
when they dis-
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