Read the full judgment text of CACC 001030/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 15 January 1980.
1. The Appellant and his friend held up the cashiers of a supermarket with a knife. It is fair to say that at the outset it was not the Appellant who held the knife, but his friend. However when his friend dropped it in the scuffle that ensued when other staff came to the help of the cashiers the Appellant made sure he picked it up. He took it with him as he ran away and used it to some effect upon the stomach of one of the constables who eventually caught him.