Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000017/1984 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The appellant was convicted on his pleas to charges of theft. The agreed facts disclosed that he stole a handcart from the second floor of a building and later stole two boxes of pears from outside the building, using the cart to take them away. The learned magistrate, in his record, indicated the appellant had 4 previous similar convictions. In fact the appellant had 12 previous convictions for theft, 4 for robbery and one for burglary. The learned magistrate appeared to confuse the number o
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