Read the full judgment text of CACC 000172/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The applicant was caught by the police loitering. He confessed to seven offences of burglary, in two of which he stood to gain nothing. He was sentenced on 14 March 1996 to two months' imprisonment for the loitering charge. Of the two burglary charges in which nothing was apparently taken, he was sentenced in one to 18 months' imprisonment. For the rest of the burglary charges, he was given two years each. Except for the 18 months' sentence, the rest of the sentences were ordered to run concu