Community Service Conversion to Custodial Sentence Upheld Due to Third-Party Fine Payment Prohibition

The court addressed an appeal challenging the conversion of an unfulfilled community service penalty into a ten-day custodial sentence, where the appellant requested conversion instead to a fine, funded by a third party. The court reasoned that although a fine generally takes precedence over custodial substitution under relevant law, the fine is inherently personal and must be paid by the convicted individual; if a third party covers the economic burden, the penalty loses its punitive character, thus upholding the original decision to convert the penalty to imprisonment because allowing a third-party payment would violate the principle of personal liability for a fine.