Read the full judgment text of CACC 000374/1968 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 13 September 1968.
1. This is an appeal against the sentence of five years' imprisonment imposed on the appellant for the offence of manslaughter to which he pleaded guilty, as a lesser offence on an information for murder, in the court below. From the statement of facts given to the court below by counsel for the prosecution - a statement which was accepted by counsel for the defence as being correct - it appears that the appellant had been employed by the deceased in the running of a gambling stall. The duties o