Read the full judgment text of HCCC 000092/1976 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The details of this matter are not of general interest but they have brought to notice the unsatisfactory consequences that may follow where a person who is currently on probation imposed by the High Court or the District Court commits a further offence of which he is convicted in the magistrate's court. One would naturally expect the magistrate to delay the sentence for that further offence until he knew what course the higher court would take in regard to the original offence. The magistrat