Read the full judgment text of CACC 000560/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 18 March 1971.
1. In the Court below there were other accused persons involved. The indictment contains three counts, the first count of robbery of a bank being against all the accused; the second and third counts, which concerned possession of a revolver and ammunition, were against the first appellant only. The only accused men, that is to say apart from the first and the third accused who are the present appellants, were acquitted and discharged in the course of the trial, there being virtually no evidence