Read the full judgment text of CACC 000108/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 7 April 1970.
1. The appellant pleaded guilty to a charge of shop-lifting. He was caught in the very act of stealing a jacket from a shop and running away with it. He was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and he now appeals against that conviction. He was convicted on the 17th January and he has been in prison since that time, serving his sentence, a matter of between two and a half to three months.