S v Brink
Jurisdiction | South Africa |
Citation | 1969 (4) SA 17 (NC) |
S v Brink
1969 (4) SA 17 (NC)
1969 (4) SA p17
Citation |
1969 (4) SA 17 (NC) |
Court |
Noord-Kaapse Afdeling |
Judge |
De Vos Hugo RP en van Rhyn R |
Heard |
May 20, 1969 |
Judgment |
May 20, 1969 |
Flynote : Sleutelwoorde
Strafreg — Ontsnapping uit bewaring — Ontsnapping uit 'n klagtekantoor — Nie 'n oortreding van art. 48 (1) (b) van Wet 8 van 1959 nie — Gevangenis — Klagtekantoor — Nie 'n gevangenis nie — Ontsnapping daaruit nie 'n oortreding van art. 48 (1) (b) van Wet 8 van 1959 nie.
Headnote : Kopnota
'n Klagtekantoor kan nie as 'n gevangenis ooreenkomstig die bepalings van die Wet op Gevangenisse, 8 van 1959, bestempel word nie. Gevolglik kan 'n persoon wat uit 'n klagtekantoor ontsnap het, nie aan 'n oortreding van artikel 48 (1) (b) van die Wet skuldig bevind word nie.
Flynote : Sleutelwoorde
Criminal law — Escape from custody — Escape from a charge office — Not a contravention of sec. 48 (1) (b) of Act 8 of 1959 — Prison — Charge office — Not a prison — Escape therefrom not a contravention of sec. 48 (1) (b) of Act 8 of 1959.
Headnote : Kopnota
A charge office cannot be classed as a prison under the provisions of the Prisons Act, 8 of 1959. Consequently a person who escaped from a charge office cannot be convicted of a contravention of section 48 (1) (b) of the Act.
Case Information
Hersiening.
Judgment
Van Rhyn, R.:
In hierdie saak is die beskuldigde skuldig bevind aan H ontsnapping uit bewaring en gevonnis tot nege maande gevangenisstraf deur die landdros.
1969 (4) SA p18
van Rhyn R
Die beskuldigde is 'n eerste oortreder en was verhoorafwagtend op 'n aanklag van fietsdiefstal. Dit blyk uit die getuienis dat die beskuldigde in die aanklagkantoor van die 'Polisiestasie Vryburg' was, toe 'beskuldigde wegspring en uit die aanklagkantoor hardloop'. Hy is A binne enkele oomblikke weer aangekeer.
Op navraag het die landdros redes verstrek waarom 'n eerste oortreder, wat soos die landdros dit self stel: 'waarskynlik op die ingewing van die oomblik die hasepad gekies het . . .' so 'n strawwe vonnis opgelê is, en dit terwyl die landdros nie eers bewus was van die waarde van die B fiets of die erns van die beweerde misdaad waarvoor die beskuldigde 'aangehou' sou gewees het nie.
Hierdie redes kom op 'n veralgemening neer en ek wens te meld dat, na my mening, in hierdie bepaalde geval, die vonnis onregverdig is. Die assistent Prokureur-Generaal, mnr. Rossouw, stem met...
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