Read the full judgment text of CACC 000966/1975 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 24 March 1976.
2. The first grounds of appeal all relate to the testimony of two witnesses who were called to give evidence of "similar facts". On two separate occasions about a year prior to the offence charged the Appellant was said to have burned holes in the skirt of one of these witnesses with a lighted cigarette when she was travelling on a ferry. The Appellant contends that this evidence was wrongly admitted because there was no real similarity and that, even if it was admissible, the judge should in th