Read the full judgment text of CACC 000811/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 5 February 1980.
1. This Appellant applies for leave to appeal against a sentence of four years' imprisonment. There was a very serious offence here in which a gang armed with knives carried out a raid on a party which the judge accepted was a gambling party. A very large sum of money was stolen, a total of some $58,000. The learned judge passed a blanket sentence of four years' imprisonment on all the four accused who were actually tried before him, another man having failed to answer to his bail. The learned j