Read the full judgment text of CACC 000320/1980 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 1 May 1980.
1. In this matter the appellant was convicted of the offence of robbery and sentence to imprisonment for 18 months. The conviction rested solely upon the admissions made by the appellant in a cautioned statement which he gave to P.C. 12485 after he had been arrested. There would, but for the admissions contained in that statement, have been no case at all against the appellant. When P.C. 12485 produced the statement while giving evidence the Learned Magistrate said to the appellant "Do you have