Read the full judgment text of CACC 000554/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. Two charges of robbery were laid in the District Court. The first was against all four appellants and to which they all pleaded guilty. The victims were a police inspector, his wife and his relatives and several customers in a restaurant to which they had gone for refreshment after an evening cinema show. As soon as the inspector entered the door he was grabbed from behind by one man while another man flourished a long knife at his chest. His service revolver and ammunition, his warrant card