Reginam v Tabaki [1977] FJSC 125; Review of 14 of 1977 (25 November 1977)

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF FIJI
REVISIONAL JURISDICTION

Review No. 14 of 1977

IN THE MATTER
of the Criminal Procedure Code

AND IN THE MATTER
of Criminal Case No. 1383 of 1977
before the Magistrates Court at Suva

REGINAM
Complainant

v

PAULA TABAKI
Respondent

ORDER ON REVISION

On the 28th October 1977 at Suva Magistrates Court the respondent having been convicted on his own plea of three offences of living on the earnings of prostitution contrary to section 160(1)(a) of the Penal Code, and of keeping a guest house without a licence contrary to section 4(2) of the Hotel and Guest Houses Act 1973 was sentenced to a total term of eighteen months' imprisonment which was ordered to run concurrently with the sentences imposed in Suva Magistrates Court Case No. 159 of 1977.

The sentences imposed in the latter case were the subject of an appeal to the Supreme Court in Paula Tabaki v. Reg. (Criminal Appeal No. 121 of 1977) and for the reasons there given the sentences herein are set aside and in substitution therefor the respondent is sentenced to six months' imprisonment on each count concurrent, with effect from the 28th October 1977, then sentences to run concurrently with the sentences imposed in Criminal Appeal No. 121 of 1977.

(Sgd.) Grant, C. J.
Chief Justice

Suva,
25th November 1977