Read the full judgment text of CACC 000128/1972 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. The appellant was charged in the Court below with robbery. While all robberies are of their nature serious, this robbery was no more so than the ordinary run of the mill case. The appellant and others, unarmed, assaulted the victim in the street, threatened him and took $90 from his shirt pocket. The victim raised an alarm, and the appellant and one other were arrested. When the appellant came before the learned Magistrate in the Court below, the Magistrate