Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000833/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 December 1995.
1. This was an appeal against a conviction for assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The only point on the appeal and the reason for my having to allow the appeal was simply that the learned Magistrate stated in his findings that he accepted the evidence from the prosecution as credible and rejected the evidence of the defence witness. But he did so without giving any reason whatsoever for making that decision. It is almost trite law that a magistrate in his findings must give defendants reaso
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