Read the full judgment text of CACC 000507/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellant appeals against a sentence of five years' imprisonment for robbery. He was an air-conditioning mechanic earning a good salary. He was sent on duty to a flat to overhaul an air-conditioner and he returned on a subsequent day and then attacked the owner's wife, a woman who was pregnant, as she was leaving the flat. It is not entirely clear exactly what he did: he appears to have covered her mouth with his hand and at some stage was holding her neck: he threatened her with a knife