Supreme Court
Counsel – H. Rantes for the Defendant
SENTENCE
1. Section 107 of the Penal Code provides that no person shall commit intentional assault on the body of another person. If damage of a temporary nature is caused then the penalty prescribed under Section 107(b) is imprisonment for 1 year.
2. I have taken into consideration the mitigating factors put forward by defence counsel and in view of the circumstances of the case and considering the character of the accused I shall exercise my discretion to temper justice with mercy. In the result I hereby sentence the accused to 6 months imprisonment to which I shall give him credit for one third reduction as he is a first time offender leaving an end sentence of 2 months which is wholly suspended for 2 years.
3. The accused is hereby warned that in the event he commits another offence during such period of suspension the sentence will become operative.