Read the full judgment text of CACC 000658/1968 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 26 November 1968.
1. The appellant and the respondent had been living as man and wife and I shall refer to them as such. The wife filed an information alleging an assault by the husband, upon which the learned magistrate issued a summons. Upon trial of the summons the wife gave evidence of a violent assault by the husband, which was alleged to have arisen out of a dispute about the method she was adopting to carry their baby to see a doctor. The wife's evidence was short but it appears to have contained all the m