Read the full judgment text of CACC 000437/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant was tried before the District Court upon no less than 25 charges - principally charges under s.17(1) of the Theft Ordinance which deals with obtaining property by deception - but the Crown elected to proceed against him upon the 4th to 9th charges inclusive only. These charges arose out of the alleged issuing by the appellant of a number of cheques in November of 1975 and the subsequent dishonour of those cheques which had been, as the Crown alleged, issued in payment for goods