Read the full judgment text of CACC 000622/1985 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant was convicted after trial on 4 charges of blackmail and 3 charges of theft. Apart from the last charge of blackmail, these charges go in pairs. The first charge is of making a demand with menaces of $1,000 on the 28th May 1985 and the second is obtaining that $1,000 when the demand was met later that day His third charge is of demanding another $1,000 on the 30th of May and again of receiving that $1,000 the same day. The fifth charge is of demanding $1,600 on the 3rd of June an