Read the full judgment text of CACC 000547/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 1 September 1969.
1. The accused in this case was convicted upon his own plea on the 14th July, 1969, on two charges under the Larceny Ordinance and was sentenced to 2 1/2 years on each charge, the sentences to run consecutively. The first charge concerned larceny in a dwelling house contrary to s.25(a) and the second housebreaking and larceny contrary to s.43(a). He has a long record connected with dangerous drugs. His total record dates from 1954 to 1967. It includes six previous convictions for larceny. The fi