R v Soqokomashe
R v Soqokomashe[1] is an important case in South African law, heard in the Eastern Districts Local Division by Price JP and Jennett J on 2 March 1956, with judgment handed down on 9 March.
Facts
[edit]The appellants had pleaded guilty to a charge of arson, it being alleged that they had set fire to a rondavel classroom of a "native" school. The Crown evidence showed that the structure was immovable, but that there was no evidence to prove that it had been burned intentionally.
Judgment
[edit]In an appeal from convictions in a magistrate's court, the court held that, as long as an accidental burning had not been excluded by the evidence as a reasonable possibility, it could not be said that it had been proved aliunde beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime had been committed. The court held further that the case should not be remitted for further evidence.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Case law
[edit]- R v Soqokomashe 1956 (2) SA 142 (E).
Notes
[edit]- ↑ 1956 (2) SA 142 (E).
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