Read the full judgment text of CACC 000933/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 January 1972.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. In the court below the appellant had pleaded guilty to loitering and to a charge of going equipped for stealing. For the first offence he was sentenced to 2 months' imprisonment and for the second to 6 months' imprisonment consecutive. The learned magistrate had made the sentences consecutive because the article with which he was equipped for stealing was a razor blade. Notwithstanding this fact, and that the appellant, appears from his record to be a profe