The fact that offences are committed soon after one another does not make them part of the same transaction for the purpose of the working rule favouring concurrent sentences. The working rule may be departed from whenever appropriate, and a sentencing judge does not err in making sentences cumulative where offences are separate and distinct. An error in explaining the non-parole period to an offender does not constitute an error in the imposition of the sentence.
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