Read the full judgment text of CACC 000709/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. Upon the recent hearing of some sixteen magisterial appeals, the suggestion was put forward by Mr. Caird of Crown Counsel that in eleven of the cases, as in Criminal Appeal No. 657 of 1971, no conviction had been properly recorded. I was not wholly convinced that this was the case but, ex abundante cautela, in the exercise of my powers under s.119(d) of the Magistrates Ordinance, I set aside the sentences, recorded a conviction and reimposed a sentence which, in the nine cases, the subject of