Read the full judgment text of CACC 000197/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 11 September 1970.
1. The two appellants, now aged 17 years and 18 years respectively, were the 5th and 6th accused at the trial and it will be convenient to continue to refer to them as such. They were two of a party of seven accused persons then aged between 14 years and 19 years, the youngest being a girl, all of whom were found guilty by the jury of a joint robbery in which a knife produced from the handbag carried by the girl was used to threaten the person robbed. The robbery was the first of a series of inc