Read the full judgment text of CACC 000536/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This case has given us great anxiety. Each member of the Court approached it with doubts whether a sentence of detention in a Training Centre was appropriate for the manslaughter of an officer of the Prisons Department in the course of an escape from a Training Centre. Indeed, the complaint of the Appellants is not that the sentences were too severe but that they were not severe enough and they ask us to substitute long prison sentences. Applications to impose a more severe sentence are not u