Read the full judgment text of CACC 000116/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 26 July 1996.
1. On 4th January this year, the applicant pleaded guilty in the High Court to one charge of unlawfully and maliciously throwing corrosive fluid with intent to burn. At the request of her Counsel at the trial, Ryan, J. who was dealing with the case deferred the sentence pending psychiatric reports. These were duly obtained and tended to confirm the substance of the applicant's version of events which led her to throw the corrosive fluid on the wife of her former lover. Ryan, J. very fairly summa