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MOHAMMED KHALIL}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 \par s/o MOHAMMED TAK}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 I \par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 2. VIJAY SINGH \par }{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 s/o BHUP SINGH \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1060785 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1060785 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 and \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1060785 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1060785 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 REGINAM \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1060785 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1060785 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 JUDGMENT}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1060785 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 On the 2nd February 1978 at Labasa Magistrates Court the first appellant was convicted on his own plea of larceny in a dwelling house contrary to section 302(1) of the Penal Code and the second appellant was convicted on his own plea of receiving stolen p roperty (being the proceeds of the theft) contrary to section 347(1)(a) of the Penal Code}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 and each appellant was sentenced to three years}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 '}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 imprisonment.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 The appellants have appealed against sentence as being harsh and excessive. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 In addition they sought to a ppeal against conviction on the ground that they pleaded guilty as a result of undue influence and misrepresentations made by police officers, in support of which the second appellant swore an affidavit prepared by his solicitors containing further and be tter particulars. At the hearing no attempt was made by counsel to pursue this, as it is well established that allegations of this sort do not constitute grounds for appeal.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 Section 290(1) of the Fiji Criminal Procedure Code specifically provides that no ap peal 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\insrsid1060785 '}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9314909\charrsid1060785 court, except as to the extent or legality of the sentence. This provision is in pari materia to section 348(1) of the Kenya Criminal Procedure Code in regard to which it has been held that,}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 so long as a plea of guilty is unequivocal and contains no ambiguity, an appeal}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16333150 against conviction does not lie}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16333150 (}{\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid16333150 R. }{ \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 v. Wakelin}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid16333150 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 (1951) 18 E.A.C.A. 185). The same principle applies in England; and once a case has been completed by a trial court, by sentence or other final adjudication}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 (}{\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 S. v. Recorder of Manchester}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid16333150 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 (1971) A.C. 481), then so long}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16333150 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 as the plea of guilty was unequivocal, the accused fully}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 understood the charge t}{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16333150 o which the plea of guilty was }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 entered, and nothing took}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 place before the trial court to cast any doubt on the plea, no court has jurisdiction to entertain an application for a change of plea (}{ \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 R. v. Marylebone Justices}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid16333150 }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 (1971) 1 All E.R. 1025).}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 \par For these reasons this purported ground of appeal was not entertained. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 As to sentence, the first appellant entered the house of the complainant and removed a }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 box }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 containing money }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 which he forced open and the contents of }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 which he }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 subsequently gave to the second appellant who was aware }{ \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 of the theft. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 The first appellant is seventeen years of age and the second appellant twenty years of age and neither of them has any previous convictions. \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 In the circumstances the sentences of three years}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 '}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 imprisonment are excessive and are quashed. In substitution therefor each appellant is sentenced to twelve months}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 '}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 imprisonment with effect from the 2nd February 1978.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1060785 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 Clifford H. Grant \par Chief Justice \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid1060785 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785 \par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1060785\charrsid1060785 Suva, \par 19th May 1978. \par }}