Read the full judgment text of CACC 000391/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 9 January 1979.
1. Although the Appellant in his evidence initially denied having had anything to do with his father's death, he later admitted that he had struck and killed him. The case had been put forward by the Crown as one of cold-blooded murder, albeit a crime which was motivated by revenge for the father's failure to carry out his paternal duties towards the Appellant and for the father's neglect of the Appellant's step-mother. Even when the Appellant had admitted the killing, he gave two different acco