Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000859/1985 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. I have given orally my reasons for rejecting the second ground of appeal, it is unnecessary to put them in writing. I allow the appeal on the first ground, for reasons which I put in writing for the information of the learned magistrate. The charge is assaulting a police officer. There were four prosecution witnesses and four defence witnesses. The learned magistrate's findings consist of five pages of typescript in which he repeats in detail the evidence of the witnesses. That is followed by