Read the full judgment text of CACC 000621/1967 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 19 January 1968.
1. The appellant seeks leave to appeal against sentences of 5 years and 3 years imprisonment, to run concurrently, imposed upon him by a Supreme Court judge for the offences of wounding with intent and throwing corrosive liquid with intent to do grievous bodily harm. At the outset of committal proceedings taken against him in respect of these two indictable offences the appellant pleaded guilty to both charges before the magistrate and the magistrate, in accordance with the recently enacted prov