The King v Swinton - [1946] NZLR 43

Criminal Law — Practice — Indictable Offence — Children's Court — Boy under Seventeen believed to be over Age of Seventeen Years — Plea of Guilty before Magistrate — Committal to Supreme Court for Sentence — Sentence imposed there and recorded — Prisoner subsequently proved to be under Seventeen Years — Power of Supreme Court to Annul Sentence — Child Welfare Act, 1925, ss 21, 29.