Section 120:
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
120. Delay in prosecuting—The offence took place in 1984. The information against the 2 appellants was lodged 3 years later in 1987. The trial
which started in February 1987, ended in October 1988 when judgment was
delivered. With the result that witnesses who were called had to depone to
an event which took place 3 years earlier in a fairly simple and straight forward matter. In view of section 10 (2) (b) of the Constitution this is certainly
an unsatisfactory and disturbing state of affairs which must be remedied.
Joomun v R (1989).