Read the full judgment text of HCMA 635/2011 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 December 2011.
1. This Appellant, a man in his mid-sixties, pleaded guilty before Stephen Smout, Esq. in the Magistrates’ Court to theft. He had stolen from a supermarket eight food items of a total value of $182.50. Although he has a number of previous convictions, only one was similar to the one to which he pleaded guilty this time. Since that previous conviction was in 1972, the Magistrate treated the present conviction as the Appellant’s first conviction for an offence of this type.