Read the full judgment text of CACC 000097/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant was convicted of Blackmail and Theft both contrary to the Theft Ordinance. The charges arise out of an allegation that he obtained separation money from a former girl friend. His trial commenced before a magistrate on the 29th November 1977 and the girl friend was affirmed and commenced to give evidence. After she was a short way into her evidence the trial magistrate stopped the trial and ordered a trial de novo before another magistrate on the ground that the witness, the form