The King v Aitken - [1949] NZLR 277

Criminal Law — Trial — Direction — Absence of Detailed Direction as to Essential Elements of Crime Charged — Statutory Definition not essential to Direction — Direction as to who may be Parties to Offence — Desirable but not Essential — No Miscarriage of Justice — Criminal Appeal Act, 1945, s 4 (1) — Crimes Act, 1908, s 90.

Criminal Law — Reformative Detention — Prisoner sentenced, in respect of one Crime, to Eighteen Months' Hard Labour — Sentence in respect of other Crime of Six Months' Hard Labour cumulative, to be followed by Six Months' Reformative Detention — Both Convictions at Same Sessions — Order in which Sentences to be Served — Crimes Amendment Act, 1910, s 22.