29 Apr 1978
Conviction was upheld but the sentence was reduced on appeal to the extent necessary to allow the appellant to be released on the date of the hearing, because the offence was not very serious and the appellant's character warranted a lesser outcome.
29 Aug 1975
The conviction was quashed because the prosecution failed to prove facts sufficient to bring the appellant within the legal category of a 'suspected person'; the officers' statement of suspicion alone was legally insufficient and the proviso could not cure the evidential deficiency.
22 Dec 1970
Appeal allowed and conviction quashed because the magistrate failed to identify or direct his mind to the antecedent act(s) that must establish the appellant as a 'suspected person' prior to the act leading to arrest; absent such findings the conviction could not be sustained despite evidence that might have supported it.