Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000309/2007 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 26 October 2007.
1. This is an appeal against conviction for theft. It was a shoplifting case. A maid, shopping on behalf of her employer, failed to pay for a packet of steak which was in her trolley, amongst a number of other items which she did purchase from the supermarket at the time. She went through the checkout; she did not pay for the steak. The issue in the case was whether the failure to pay for the steak was due to carelessness or whether it was deliberate. The case took a day and a half in the
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