Read the full judgment text of CACC 34/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 2 May 1973.
1. The Appellant, who at the time of the commission of his offences was a serving policeman, was originally charged in the District Court with three other men upon a large number of counts of blackmail. In those proceedings the appellant, together with another of the four, failed to surrender to his bail. In the result the Crown proceeded upon four charges only against the remaining two of the original quartet. Those two men were found guilty and one of them, known by the soubriquet of “the Chie