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{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3412223 The appellant, who was unrepresented pleaded guilty. \par \par The prosecution then outlined }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1786483 the following facts which the appellant admitted: \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid9848504 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1786483 \par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid2888726 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9848504 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1786483 Between 9.12.76 and 16.12.76 accused stayed at Hot}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12058942 el}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1786483 Takia and was allocated room 104. }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12058942 He}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1786483 was given meals and accommodation during that time. He left on 16.12.76 with out advising any person. He just took his belongings and left. Made no payment. Reported to Police. Accused seen and admitted obtaining credit by False Pretences. Arrested and charged. 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Generally speaking it is undoubtedly so. This Court has, however, often quashed a conviction based on such a plea where the charge, as laid, showed no offence known to the law or where it was fundamentally }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 defective owing to a lack of essential part iculars or some other reason. In particular, the proviso to section 323 of the Criminal Procedure Code allows objections to a charge to be raised on appeal where the appellant }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9848504 was unrepresented at the trial.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1786483 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 \par Archbold (36th Edn. }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10166120 p}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 ara. 1935) states that }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9848504 "}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 It is essential that the false pretences shall be set out in the indictment }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2251654 \'85\'85\'85 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 and with sufficient certainty.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9848504 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 In }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500\charrsid12058942 R}{ \b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2251654 .}{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500\charrsid12058942 v. Thomas}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 (23 Cr. App. R. 21) Avory L.C.J. said, \par \par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid811500 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9848504 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 Without going into further matters, it is enough to look at the indictment itself. Nowhere does it say what the false pretences were said to have been. The Crown very properly does not seek to support the conviction, and the appeal is allowed, and the con viction quashed.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9848504 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid9848504 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid12080182 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12080182 In the present case learned counsel for }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2251654 the }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12080182 respondent concedes that the particulars laid in the charge were fundamentally defective. That being so, a conviction based on a plea of guilty cannot, in my view, be allowed to stand. The appel lant should not have been asked to plead }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10907354 to the charge without the proper amendment (see }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10907354\charrsid12058942 Hunter v}{ \b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12058942 .}{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10907354\charrsid12058942 Coombs}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10907354 1962 1 W.L.R. 573). No amendment in this case was sort or ordered.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid811500 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10907354 \par Learn}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10689462 ed}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10907354 counsel for the appellant quite correctly points out that even the facts o utlined before the Court and admitted by the appellant disclose no specific false pretence. Unless such a pretence is stated with sufficient }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337298 certainty, a court is not in a position to decide whether the representation allegedly made by the appellant can amount to a }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9848504 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337298 false pretence}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9848504 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337298 in law without which no criminal offence would be disclosed. \par \par The appeal is allowed and the conviction is quashed. \par \par In framing a charge under section 343 (a) of the Penal Code it is generally advisable to have an additional alternative count alleging that the person charged obtained credit by means of fraud other than false pretence. \par \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid11342331 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337298\charrsid14552499 (Sgd.)}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9705551 }{ \b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337298\charrsid14552499 G. Mishra \par JUDGE \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid9848504 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337298 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid11342331 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337298 Suva, \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3222722 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337298 23rd June 1977}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3222722\charrsid3222722 \par }}