Read the full judgment text of CACC 126/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an appeal against a sentence. The appellant in the court below had plead guilty to four offences: the offence of burglary, the offence of forgery of a cheque stolen in the course of the burglary, the offence of uttering it and the offence of obtaining property by deception by means of it. The appellant is aged 25 years and this was his first conviction. He pleaded guilty and had been frank and open with the police on his arrest. Prior to his offence the accused suffered from tuberculo