Read the full judgment text of CACC 000246/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 16 June 1970.
1. The appellant appeals against a sentence of detention in a Training Centre on a conviction for robbery with aggravation on his plea of guilty. He is 16 years of age. The circumstances of the offence are serious but not unduly so. It appears that he and another youth robbed another youth of 60 cents but used some violence in the course thereof. Neither, however, was armed with any offensive weapon. The learned magistrate, as he indicates in his findings, was persuaded to impose a sentence of d