Rex v Dyonta and Another Appellants

JurisdictionSouth Africa
JudgeWessels CJ, Curlewis JA, Beyers JA and De Villiers JA
Judgment Date24 October 1934
Citation1935 AD 52
Hearing Date24 October 1934
CourtAppellate Division

Wessels, C.J.:

In this matter the two accused approached one Potgieter at the Johannesburg Show Ground. They produced

Wessels, C.J.

some glass imitations of diamonds and offered to sell them to him. Potgieter gave them his card, and told them they had better to see him at Carolina if they wished to sell him diamonds. Potgieter never intended buying any diamonds from them. He explained in his evidence that he knew that, as a result of such temptation being put in their way, respectable Europeans sometimes got into serious trouble, and he made up his mind that, if the accused came to Carolina to...

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38 practice notes
  • 2015 index
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...254R v Dick 1969 (3) SA 267 (R) .............................................................. 370R v Dyonta 1935 AD 52 ....................................................................... 82R v Greene1948 (3) SA 1197 (E) ......................................................... 370R v H......
  • 2016 index
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...51R v Chenjere 1960 (1) SA 473 (FC) ..................................................... 107R v Dyontya 1935 AD 52 ..................................................................... 350R v Grundlingh 1955 (2) SA 269 (A) ................................................... 194R v Harmer 1......
  • 2014 index
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...280-1, 292, 443R v Dube 1915 AD 557 ........................................................................ 312 R v Dyonta 1935 AD 52 ....................................................................... 216R v Eusuf 1949 (1) SA 656 (N) .........................................................
  • S v Ndwambi
    • South Africa
    • South Africa Criminal Law Reports
    • 31 March 2015
    ...AD 188: referred to F R v Davies 1928 AD 165: referred to R v Davies and Another 1956 (3) SA 52 (A): referred to R v Dyonta and Another 1935 AD 52: discussed and R v Heyne and Others 1956 (3) SA 604 (A): dictum at 622F applied R v Hymans 1927 AD 35: referred to R v Kantor 1969 (1) SA 457 (R......
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  • S v Ndwambi
    • South Africa
    • South Africa Criminal Law Reports
    • 31 March 2015
    ...AD 188: referred to F R v Davies 1928 AD 165: referred to R v Davies and Another 1956 (3) SA 52 (A): referred to R v Dyonta and Another 1935 AD 52: discussed and R v Heyne and Others 1956 (3) SA 604 (A): dictum at 622F applied R v Hymans 1927 AD 35: referred to R v Kantor 1969 (1) SA 457 (R......
  • R v Heyne and Others
    • South Africa
    • South Africa Law Reports
    • 19 June 1956
    ...See R v Jolosa, supra at p. 698; R v McLean, 1918 T.P.D. at pp. 96 - 7; R v Jones and More, supra at p. 353; R v Dyonta and Another, 1935 AD 52, 57; R v Woolf, 1935 CPD 237 at pp. 247 - 8; R v Hendrickz, 1938 W.L.D. 277; R v Kruse, 1946 AD 524 at p. 534. D As to prejudice, there was prejudi......
  • Rex v Asner
    • South Africa
    • South African Appellate Division Reports
    • 25 April 1938
    ...& Young (1924 AD 483); Rex v Jones & More (1926 AD 350); Rex v Wood (1927 AD 19); Rex v Hendrikz (1934 AD 534); Rex v Dyonta and Another (1935 AD 52). As to concealment see Rex v Castleden (6 S.C. 235); Rex v Herzfelder (1907 T.H. 247) and Gardiner and Lansdown on S.A. Criminal Law (3rd ed.......
  • Rex v Kruse
    • South Africa
    • South African Appellate Division Reports
    • 21 May 1946
    ...S.A.L.J., vol. 51, at pp. 41-43, 49 and 55. The law looks at the matter from the point of view of the deceiver (Rex v Dyonta and Another (1935 AD 52 at 57). It was sufficient, for the Crown to prove that the representation was calculated to cause prejudice (Rex v Herzfelder (1907, T.H. 244 ......
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6 books & journal articles
  • 2015 index
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...254R v Dick 1969 (3) SA 267 (R) .............................................................. 370R v Dyonta 1935 AD 52 ....................................................................... 82R v Greene1948 (3) SA 1197 (E) ......................................................... 370R v H......
  • 2014 index
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...280-1, 292, 443R v Dube 1915 AD 557 ........................................................................ 312 R v Dyonta 1935 AD 52 ....................................................................... 216R v Eusuf 1949 (1) SA 656 (N) .........................................................
  • 2016 index
    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
    ...51R v Chenjere 1960 (1) SA 473 (FC) ..................................................... 107R v Dyontya 1935 AD 52 ..................................................................... 350R v Grundlingh 1955 (2) SA 269 (A) ................................................... 194R v Harmer 1......
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    • South Africa
    • Juta South African Criminal Law Journal No. , August 2019
    • 24 May 2019
    ...tive was not that of the deceived, but rather the deceiver (and citing in support of this long-standing rule t he cases of R v Dyontya 1935 AD 52; S v Mngqibisa 2008 (1) SACR 92 (SCA); and S v Brown 2015 (1) SACR 211 (SCA)). Meyer AJA thus held, for the majority, that (at para [22])‘[i]n th......
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