Read the full judgment text of CACC 000220/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This case is fraught with difficulties. In 1974 a constable went to a room in a housing estate and was concerned to make investigation into an allegation of wounding. He went into a room where there were three youths. It is admitted that he did not reveal his identity to those youths. According to the prosecution story the brief facts of the case - which were at first admitted by the defence - the officer had previously searched these young men in the street. He made a telephone call from tha