Consideration of community service did not have to be recited in committal warrant

Supreme Court dismisses appeals from the Court of Appeal, and affirms two Circuit Court orders in which District Court convictions or sentences were affirmed on appeal, and determined: (a) that it was not necessary for the Circuit Court to hear evidence prior to affirming a District Court order, if an appellant had failed to appear or to prosecute the appeal, on the grounds that the appeal operated as a stay and the failure to appear cause the stay to be lifted and the original order to stand; and (b) that it was not necessary for the District Court or Circuit Court to recite in a committal warrant the fact that the court had considered community service as an alternative to imprisonment, on the grounds that the requirement of a warrant was that it be clear and unambiguous, not that it set out all matters to be considered by the court prior to sentence.