R v Bryant - [1980] 1 NZLR 264

Criminal law — Evidence — Appeal against sentence — Accused pleaded guilty to charges of rendering two police constables incapable of resistance by violent means — Police summary of facts stated that the accused had hit one of the constables in the head with a hammer — Accused denied using a hammer — Whether the sentencing Judge could reject the accused's denial of responsibility for the blow — Summary Proceedings Act 1957, ss 153A and 182.