Miller v Mcrae - [1956] NZLR 440

Shipping and Seamen — Deserting Seaman — Order for Detention in Custody — Appeal therefrom — Such Order a "sentence passed on the conviction" — Jurisdiction of Supreme Court to hear Appeal — Shipping and Seamen Act 1952, s 158 (5) — Justices of the Peace Act 1927, s 315 (2).