Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000556/1993 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The appellant in this case was caught by an off duty police officer stealing money from the purse of a lady aged 62 and was convicted on his own plea of guilty to a charge of theft. He was at the same time convicted of a charge of resisting arrest because he put up a struggle when the police officer at the scene tried to arrest him. He pleaded guilty to that offence also. For the first offence, he was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment and for the second offence to 3 months’ imprisonment co