Read the full judgment text of CACC 000011/1972 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. These two Appellants were convicted on their own confessions of robbery. They attacked a woman in broad daylight near her home: the 1st Appellant pointed a knife at her, the second grabbed her neck and threatened that if she did not hand over her purse she would be stabbed to death. In the course of the incident the victim's left hand was cut by the knife held by the 1st Appellant. Thanks to the intervention of two members of the public the Appellants were arrested.