Read the full judgment text of CACC 000213/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 28 April 1969.
1. The appellant appeals against a sentence of 15 months' imprisonment passed upon him by the learned magistrate for larceny from the person. He was seen following a number of ladies in the street and finally was seen to snatch a handbag from one of them. After a chase he was arrested. He has six previous convictions, three of them relating to offences of dishonesty and two relating to dangerous drugs. The last conviction was for membership of a Triad Society and professing to be an office beare