Attorney General v Buckley and Another

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1959
• Date: 01 January 1959
• Court: Court of Criminal Appeal

(C.C.A.)

Attorney-General

and

Buckley and Another

Three years Borstal detention - Previous convictions - Whether applicants should have got benefit of Probation of Offenders Act, 1907, on previous convictions - Probation of Offenders Act, 1907.

The applicants, who were convicted in the Circuit Criminal Court of robbery with violence and sentenced to three years Borstal detention, applied to the Court of Criminal Appeal for leave to appeal against sentence on the grounds of severity. The second named applicant had been convicted previously on two separate charges of housebreaking and larceny and also of malicious damage and unlawful possession. The first named applicant had also been previously convicted of the offence of housebreaking. In...