Read the full judgment text of CACC 000510/1984 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. On the 26th of September 1984 after a trial lasting 38 days, eight men were convicted of various offences under an indictment containing eleven counts. The charges arose out of a series of eight robberies and one attempted robbery carried out between the 12th of December 1982 and the 17th of October 1983 upon goldsmith shops on either side of the harbour. On each occasion the raid was carried out by three or four men acting swiftly in concert, one armed with a gun and the others with knives a