Read the full judgment text of CACC 000748/1972 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is a deceptively straightforward case. The Appellant appeals against a conviction for burglary. There appears in the notes of proceedings an "alternative" charge which was typed on a separate sheet and dated "22.8.1972". That was the day preceding that on which the charge of burglary was laid, but this sheet appears in the record after the formal Charge Sheet. There is no indication that a plea was ever taken on this alternative charge or that any reference was made to it in the course o