Udy and Another v Police - [1964] NZLR 235

Practice and procedure — Appeal — Appeal to Supreme Court — Plea of guilty to summary offence entered in Magistrate's Court — Subsequent appeal to Supreme Court against conviction — Circumstances in which such appeal entertained — Summary Proceedings Act 1957, s. 115.

Criminal law — Summary proceedings — Plea of guilty to summary offence entered in Magistrate's Court — Subsequent appeal to Supreme Court against conviction — Circumstances in which such appeal entertained — Summary Proceedings Act 1957, s. 115.

Criminal law — Information — Contents — Defendant charged with hunting game, to wit ducks — Whether sufficiently informing defendant of substance of offence charged — Whether necessary to specify species of ducks concerned — Wildlife Act 1953, s. 64 — Summary Proceedings Act 1957, ss. 17, 204.