Read the full judgment text of CACC 000042/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The four Applicants were indicted for murder and the jury found the case proved against all of them. However, against the first Applicant they returned a verdict of Not Guilty of murder but Guilty of manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility. All applied for leave to appeal against conviction, the first Applicant having abandoned an application for leave to appeal against sentence and been granted leave to apply out of time for leave to appeal against conviction.