Read the full judgment text of CACC 000815/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellant was convicted of two offences, one of failing to conform with a 'No Stopping' sign and the other of neglecting the direction of a police officer in uniform. He appealed against conviction on the grounds, in addition to the general grounds, that the learned trial Magistrate wrongly permitted questions to be asked of the Appellant as to his previous convictions, such evidence being inadmissible in that it was both prejudicial and irrelevant to any issue then before the court and t