R v Pratt - [1990] 2 NZLR 129

Criminal law — Offences — Conversion — "Any motorcar, or any vehicle of any description" — Whether a road roller was a "vehicle" — Crimes Act 1961, s 228.

Criminal law — Practice and procedure — Indictment — Quashing of indictment — Accused was charged, under s 228 of the Crimes Act, with the offence of converting a vehicle namely a road roller — Accused moved for order quashing indictment on ground that it did not state in substance a crime because a road roller was not a vehicle — Whether indictment stated in substance an identifiable crime — Whether there was jurisdiction to quash indictment — Crimes Act 1961, s 342.