Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000156/1984 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. This is an appeal against conviction. The facts of the case were that the appellant who was the first accused in the court below was convicted on charges of blackmail and theft in connection with a water pipe which the victim of the case has been using apparently without the consent of the first and second defendants, who had installed this pipe, at some expense. The sole ground of the appeal argued before me is that the magistrate did not afford to the appellant, who unrepresented before him