Read the full judgment text of CACC 000312/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 13 July 1970.
1. In this appeal against sentence of 6 strokes and 6 months imprisonment for two offences of robbery with aggravation the appellant was concerned mainly to have the order for corporal punishment set aside. The appellant is aged 17 years and has a previous record. In October 1967 he was placed on probation on two charges of simple larceny. In November 1968 he was sent to a training centre on a charge of demanding money with menaces. The present offences occurred while he was out on licence. In r