Read the full judgment text of CACC 000728/1977 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant in this case was convicted of defilement of a girl aged between 13 and 16 years. The circumstances as to how the prosecution arose are somewhat as follows. On a morning in the early hours of May a police constable saw a girl sitting on a seat in, I think, a public park, certainly in a public place and the accused lying on that seat with his head on her lap. He suspected that the girl might possibly be a missing person so he brought them both to the police station and there it wa