Brown AG CJ:

[1] These three appeals were heard on the same day, and it will be convenient to deal with them together. In each case the appellant was convicted inter alia of driving under the influence of drink, contrary to s 27(1) of the Road Traffic Ordinance, 1941. In each case the appellant was sentenced to three months imprisonment on that charge. Each case had been tried by the same Magistrate and in each case the learned Magistrate had expressed, in his Grounds of Decision, the serious view which he took of this type of offence. In each case I upheld the convictions but the sentences of imprisonment were quashed and fines were substituted.