Read the full judgment text of CACC 000075/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 20 June 1973.
1. We are unaware of the identity of the draftsman, for the first accused in the court below, of the agreed Statement of Formal Admissions of Facts. We can only say that Machiavelli would have been proud to call him cousin and that the Crown fell into the pit dug for it. But before expanding that comment we must refer to the background of this appeal.