Read the full judgment text of CACC 000138/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 25 October 1996.
1. This applicant seeks leave to appeal against sentence out of time. He was convicted after trial of the offence of robbery and sentenced to imprisonment for seven years. The reason which he puts forth for being out of time is that his lawyer chose to appeal only against conviction. This is not a reason which would justify this court in allowing an application for leave to appeal against sentence out of time and that application must, therefore, be refused. We say, however, when so doing that w