Read the full judgment text of CACC 000829/1980 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 16 November 1980.
1. The appellant in this case was convicted on a charge of going equipped for stealing, which he had originally been charged, and on an additional charge of conspiracy to rob, a considerably more serious offence which was added by the learned Magistrate after the Crown had closed its case and after the appellant had concluded his evidence in chief. The appellant, who was unrepresented, had pleaded not guilty to the original charge and also to the conspiracy charge. His defence was that a table f