Read the full judgment text of CACC 224/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant in this case is a man of 46 years of age. He is unemployed although he gives his occupation as an “odd-job painter”. On the 16th of February 1973 he was engaged in several attempts to tamper with private cars in an endeavour to steal any article he might find in them and he was in possession of a piece of wire to assist him in this activity. For this behaviour he was charged with and pleaded guilty to two offences : one of loitering with intent to commit an offence and the other