Read the full judgment text of CACC 000820/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 3 January 1979.
1. This Appellant was charged jointly with another man with robbery and he alone was further charged with theft. He pleaded Guilty to both charges. The learned judge imposed a sentence of four years' imprisonment and twelve strokes of the cane on the first charge and one year's imprisonment concurrent on the second charge. The Appellant appeals against those sentences on the ground that they were too severe and against the sentence of caning on the ground that it was wrong in principle.