R v Davis - [1991] 1 NZLR 684

Criminal law — Sentence — Appeal — Aggravated robbery and aggravated wounding — Offender 17 years of age with one previous offence for fraud — Sustained and brutal attack causing permanent injury — Gravity of offending requiring condemnation of violence — Part of act of condemnation is to uphold sentences of imprisonment which are long but still within the discretion of the sentencing Judge — Criminal Justice Act 1985, ss 5 and 7.