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The trial court acted within its discretion under the Wildlife Conservation Act to impose custodial sentences without offering a fine option, given the prevalence and seriousness of the offences. Appellants, having pleaded guilty, cannot challenge the conviction, and no illegality or impropriety was found in the sentences imposed.
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The High Court allowed a criminal appeal, holding that a first offender who pleaded guilty should have received a fine, not seven months’ imprisonment, for unlawful presence.
The conviction was quashed and sentence set aside because the appellant was convicted on defective, omnibus charges and was not afforded the statutory option to pay a fine before being sentenced to imprisonment, contrary to the law and established legal principles.
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The conviction was quashed and sentence set aside because the appellant was convicted on defective and omnibus charges, and was not afforded the statutory option to pay a fine before being sentenced to imprisonment, contrary to the law and established legal principles.
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The conviction was based on defective omnibus charges and the appellant was denied the statutory option to pay a fine before imprisonment; this constituted a miscarriage of justice.
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