PART IISummary Procedure
Jurisdiction
290When six months' imprisonment competent
Where a person is convicted by the sheriff of—
(a)
a second or subsequent offence inferring dishonest appropriation of property, or attempt thereat, or
(b)
a second or subsequent offence inferring personal violence,
he may, without prejudice to any wider powers conferred by statute, be sentenced to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months.