Read the full judgment text of CACC 000156/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant was charged with murder. The learned trial judge having first satisfied himself most meticulously that this was a proper course to adopt, accepted a plea of not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter and, after hearing the facts, sentenced the appellant to five years' imprisonment. It is against that sentence that this appeal lies.