Read the full judgment text of CACC 000559/1983 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an appeal against conviction on a charge of attempted theft. Circumstances in the case were that a plain-clothes Constable (P.W.1) was on duty in the Happy Valley Race Course on the 8th of December last year when he said he saw the defendant behaving in what he regarded as a suspicious manner. In particular he said he saw him bumping into people as he moved through the crowd and he saw him put his hand into an area between a person's shirt and his jacket. He inserted his left hand bet