Read the full judgment text of CACC 000247/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an application for leave to appeal against conviction. The appellant was convicted of incest. The particulars of the offence were that he had carnal knowledge of his daughter on the 21st of August, 1972. The case for the prosecution was that the appellant had had sexual intercourse with his daughter over a period lasting for some 3 ½ years, the last occasion being on the 21st August, 1972. The complainant was about 17 ½ at the time of the trial and so, if her story is true, she was ab