Read the full judgment text of CACC 000671/1968 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 December 1968.
1. The appellant was convicted on his own confession on four charges of demanding money with menaces and four charges of simple larceny, those charges being related and constituting one series of transactions aimed at a single individual, and of one charge of common assault which was the result of action taken by the appellant when the victim in the previous charges refused to pay any more. On these charges the learned magistrate imposed sentences of 12 months' imprisonment on each of the first