Read the full judgment text of CACC 001132/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 15 January 1980.
1. The appellant was convicted on his own pleas, on charges of theft and obtaining property by deception. He obtained a television set by entering into a hire purchase agreement, and on the same day he sold the set and used the money to pay off gambling debts. The offences occurred in May 1979. He was arrested in September as a result of a complaint by the hire purchase company. The learned magistrate obtained probation and detention centre reports. These show that he is aged 24 years and has no