Read the full judgment text of CACC 001028/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. On 21st January we allowed the Appellant's appeal against his conviction and pronounced in open court that there should be a new trial. Counsel now moves us to reconsider the question whether there should be a new trial and the first matter to be decided is whether we have jurisdiction to entertain such an application. It is conceded that as regards the substantive appeal we are functus officio, but the argument is that an order for a new trial is not perfected until it has been communicated
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