Read the full judgment text of CACC 001083/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 11 December 1979.
1. The Appellant comes to this court suggesting that he did not know what was going on in the magistrate's court. I do not believe that: it was made very clear to him what was going on. He was given every opportunity to speak in his defence. He admitted having committed robbery and in mitigation said that he had no money, that was why he did it and that he was not a drug addict. Those were all matters taken into account by the learned magistrate. He further took into account the nature of the of