Read the full judgment text of CACC 000656/1977 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellant comes before this court complaining that the sentences of four years' imprisonment imposed upon him upon three convictions for robbery were too severe. We have on a number of occasions recently commented on the rising incidence of robberies by armed gangs which force their way into private residences, threaten, bind, gag and blindfold the occupants and then ransack the premises, and we have warned that the courts might have to take stringent steps to hold this type of crime in c