In February 2018, David Edward Walker attended a woman's home, picked up a sledgehammer and began yelling at her.

Walker told the woman he was "not scared of bashing" her and said: "I will eat ya face off, ya dog".

The woman remained hiding in her unit, terrified as there was only a locked security door between her and Walker.

Walker later denied to police he had been in the town in which the woman lived at the time of the incident, but phone records showed his phone had been transmitting from that area.

Then in July 2018, the then-30-year-old began verbally abusing another woman at a California Gully home.

He grabbed her and pushed her into a wall, then began throwing objects, smashing holes in walls.

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When the woman ran to get her phone, Walker knocked her onto a bed and began choking her.

After Walker got off her and began causing more damage, the woman ran to the front door but was pushed away by Walker.

She escaped through a side door, but Walker caught up to her and began dragging her back into the house.

She again escaped, but while she tried to call triple-0 outside, Walker punched and kicked her, and smashed the windows of her vehicle with hammer.

Walker was sentenced in the Bendigo Magistrates' Court in March to a 24-month community corrections order in relation to this and other offending.

The 19 charges included threatening serious injury, attempted blackmail, intentionally causing injury, criminal damage, breaching intervention orders and safety notices, breaching bail, and driving unlicensed.

But in April, June and July this year, he was caught driving unlicensed - breaching the community corrections order.

For this, he was resentenced in August to a total of 15 months' imprisonment with a non-parole period of nine months.

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It was this Walker hoped to reduce on appeal in the County Court in Bendigo this week.

Defence lawyer Julien Lowy submitted Walker was in a different situation now, with a newborn daughter giving him a new focus in life.

He said a community corrections order would give Walker a longer term of supervision than the parole period imposed by the magistrate in August.

But Judge Paul Lacava said Walker was not suitable for such an order and he would "have to be mad" to take that path, noting his criminal history included breaches of intervention orders and suspended sentences.

"He has no respect for anyone or anything, including the law," Judge Lacava said.

The appeal was abandoned after Judge Lacava described the sentencing magistrate's decision as "benevolent".

The Director of Public Prosecutions also sought to appeal the original 24-month community corrections order.

But this appeal was struck out when Judge Lacava agreed with Mr Lowy's submission that the original sentence was rendered obsolete when Walker was resentenced.

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