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\li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15338550 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15338550 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15338550 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15338550\charrsid15338550 REGINAM \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1456730 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1456730 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15338550 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15338550\charrsid15338550 JUDGMENT \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15338550 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15338550 \par On the 4th September 1978 at Suva }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4014485 Magistrates}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15338550 Court the appellant was convicted on his own plea of assault with intent to commit a felony contrary to section 279(a) of the Penal Code and was sentenced to eighteen months}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12021406 '}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15338550 imprisonment. The appellant has appealed against conviction and sentence. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5452690 \par Section 290(1) of the }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11763677 Criminal Procedure Code provides that:}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5452690 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11763677 \par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid11763677 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12021406 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1010205 No}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11763677 appeal shall be allowed in the case of an accused person who has pleaded guilty and has been convicted on such plea by a magistrates}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12021406 '}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11763677 court, except as}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15609310 to the extent }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11763677 or legality of the sentence.}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12021406 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11763677 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14890699 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14890699 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15338550 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14890699 That section presupposes that the offence to which an accused has pleaded guilty is one known to law, that the admitted facts substantiate the offence charged, and that the accused understood the charge and unequivocally admitted his guilt; and this Court can entertain an appeal against conviction after a plea of guilty only if the grounds relate to one or other of these elements (}{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14890699\charrsid14890699 R. v. Mohammed Khalil and Anor}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14890699 . Labasa Cr. App. Nos. 10 and 11 of 1978; }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14890699\charrsid14890699 R. v. Gyan Deo}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3681139 Labasa Cr. App. No}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14890699 . 12 of 1975).}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15338550 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14890699 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6706482 On the face of it the petition of appeal filed herein by counsel was acceptable, the two grounds being that the appellant did not fully understand the nature of the charge, and that upon the admitted facts he could not in law have been convicted of the offence charged.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14890699 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12531298 \par The charge in question was properly framed}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9312028 and specified that the appellant had assaulted the complainant with the intention of raping her. To this charge the appellant pleaded guilty. The facts were then stated, disclosing that in the early hours of the 2nd September 1978 while under the influence of liquor the appellant, who was in the company of an eighteen year old girl, pull her towards him and demanded that she have sex with him. She refused whereupon he started removing her trousers by forc e . She resisted whereupon the appellant pulled her down onto some steps and struck her on the face, head and body while trying to remove her trousers which he tore in the process. She screamed for help whereupon the appellant put his hand over her mouth an d tried to drag her to a nearby toilet. She managed to break free and fled to a public thoroughfare from where she reported the matter to the police.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12531298 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9312028 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5048224 These facts, which fully support the offence with which the appellant was charged, were admitted by the appellant who could not have been}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5768700 in any doubt about the position. In asking for leniency the appellant described his attack on the girl as }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12021406 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5768700 playing games}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid12021406 "}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5768700 , but in my view of his admission of guilt to the clearly expressed charge and his admission of the detailed facts I do not consider that this casts any doubt on the plea.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9312028 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6503207 \par In any event, on the hearing of the appeal, virtually no attempt was made to argue the grounds filed. Instead counsel for the appellant submitted that on his instructions an entirely different incident had }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1396396 occurred}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6503207 which}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1396396 did not constitute any offence and which bore no relationship whatever to the admitted facts}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10903602 ;}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4023908 and }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1396396 that }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4023908 the appellant, in admitting the }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1396396 offence }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4023908 with which he was charge and in admitting the facts of that offence }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1396396 did so, not because he was guilty, but because he thought he would only be fined and would be able to return the same day to Kadavu with a football team of which he was the captain.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6503207 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1396396 \par I need hardly point out that no appeal lies on such grounds, and had this Court known that in lieu of the grounds of appe}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3569522 al contained in the petition}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13720728 the}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1396396 appellant would be relying on the submissions made by his counsel, the appeal against conviction would not have been entertained. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7956083 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15009951 With regard to sentence, counsel for the appellant submitted that the trial Magistrate had wrongly taken into account the pr evalence of this type of offence and in support of this proposition counsel for the appellant}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 cited }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094\charrsid14767094 R.}{ \b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3569522 }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094\charrsid14767094 v. Mosese Namali and Ors. }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6170346 (Suva Cr. App. No}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 . 60 of 1976) which relied on }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid4009768 R. v.}{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094\charrsid14767094 Casey}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 (1931) N.Z.L.R. 594. However, as this Court poi}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8016634 n}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 ted out at some length in }{ \b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094\charrsid14767094 R. v. Laisenia Vateitei}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2844779 (Suva Cr. App. No}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 . 83 of 1976), }{ \b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094\charrsid14767094 R. v Casey}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 is not an authority for the proposition that the prevalence of an offence is not a relevant consideration in sente} {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13960551 nce -}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 indeed it is}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13960551 a most relevant consideration -}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 and }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094\charrsid14767094 R.}{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13960551 }{ \b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094\charrsid14767094 v. Namali & Ors}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3818593 . s}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 hould not be followed.}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7956083 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6622701 In the circumstances of this case the sentence imposed by the trial Magistrate was fully justified.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14767094 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6622701 \par The appeal is dismissed. \par \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid9379953 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6622701\charrsid9379953 Chief Justice \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15338550 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6622701 \par Suva}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16132881 ,}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6622701 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3478030 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6622701 24th November 1978.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid3478030\charrsid3478030 \par }}