Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000602/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 22 August 1995.
1. The appellant, a Peruvian female was convicted by her own plea to one charge of theft. The facts are that she and three other persons went to a shop. Two of them enticed the shopkeeper to go outside the shop to see the displayed items, whilst the defendant and the remaining one went behind the counter. The defendant was caught and the others fled. A sum in cash was found missing. Later under the direction of the appellant, the money was recovered in tact from a rubbish bin. She was sentenced