Read the full judgment text of CACC 000398/1972 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
2. At an early stage in the proceedings the judge before whom the case first came indicated that in his view it was unfair to the defendants, who were unrepresented, that they should stand trial on 18 charges at one and the same time. With that view this court is in complete agreement. However, the prosecution very properly elected to proceed on four only of those charges.