Read the full judgment text of CACC 000851/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellant appeals against a sentence of nine months' imprisonment imposed for theft. He pleaded Guilty to the offence and admitted the facts as set out in the Statement of Facts. That statement revealed that the Appellant was seen by two police officers to remove two woollen jackets from a hawker's stall: he walked away with them and was arrested. Although that Statement of Facts was admitted by the Appellant he now asserts that he never took the jackets from a stall but found them in the