Read the full judgment text of CACC 000747/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellant appeals against his conviction for careless driving. There was evidence from a young girl that she was involved in an accident. According to the certified copy of the record the accident, according to her, took place on 18th October 1973, some months after the date of the trial. I mention this because it is typical of the unsatisfactory nature of the record of the proceedings in the court below. I have said before that one does not expect a verbatim record of the evidence before