Read the full judgment text of CACC 000037/1986 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This was a sad case. There was a fight between two groups of youths that turned sour. It is fair to say that the deceased, in the course of the argument between the two sides, provoked the Applicants' group by wielding a lantern. He was then set upon by a large number of men (certainly more than seven) from the Applicants' group, who used whatever implements that came to hand for the attack. The retaliation upon the deceased went far beyond anything than could be regarded as reasonable. It wa