Read the full judgment text of CACC 000469/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant is 18 years old and at the time of his present conviction for robbery he was already serving two consecutive sentences of two years each in respect of other robberies. That fact, despite his tender years, need occasion no surprise. In Cr. App. No. 408 of 1971, in delivering judgment in the Full Court, in a case in which, on appeal against sentence of detention in a training centre, the court quashed those sentences and sent the appellants to prison instead, I said: