Read the full judgment text of CACC 000528/1974 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This appeal has occasioned me considerable anxiety. It is an appeal primarily against a conviction for robbery and the case turned upon the identification of the appellant by a single witness, the victim of the robbery. The learned magistrate warned himself carefully of the desirability of corroboration of that evidence and of the dangers of convicting upon the identification evidence of a single witness. Having so warned himself he proceeded to convict the appellant and his Statement of Find