Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000743/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 November 1997.
1. The appellants were jointly charged with one charge of wounding. In addition, the fourth appellant who was D4 was charged with assaulting a police officer. At the conclusion of the prosecution case, the magistrate amended the wounding charge to a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. She also found D4 to have no case to answer on that charge and acquitted him.