Read the full judgment text of CACC 000274/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant faced five charges of robbery. His co-accused pleaded guilty to all five charges and was duly sentenced. The appellant pleaded not guilty to all the charges and, upon the learned magistrate's holding that he had no case to answer upon three of them, was acquitted of those three charges. He was, however, convicted upon the remaining two charges and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment upon each, those sentences to run consecutively. This appeal lies against both convictions and