Read the full judgment text of CACC 000282/1974 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The three Appellants apply for leave to appeal against conviction and sentence. They were charged with murder but the jury returned a verdict of Not guilty of murder but Guilty of manslaughter. Much of the difficulty upon the appeal arises from the fact that for the purposes of sentence the learned judge put a question to the foreman of the jury and obtained an answer thereto. While we have some sympathy with the learned judge it was not appropriate to question the jury in this manner. There