Read the full judgment text of CACC 000094/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 7 March 1969.
1. Dealing first with the cases individually, the robberies were robberies with aggravation, there being two or more persons present. In each case the victim was threatened while the property was taken from him. These cases, however, were apparently not reported to the police for the victims were never located. The learned magistrate took into consideration the prevalence of this type of offence and the fact that the appellant had been convicted of unlawful possession of dangerous drugs as recen