Sentenced Under Immorality Act
(N Z.P A. Reuter —Copyright) CAPE TOWN, March 30. A white South African attorney and a coloured (mixed race) woman were each given a 12-month suspended prison sentence in Cape Town yesterday for contravening South Africa’s Immorality Act.
The act forbids sexual intercourse between whites and non-whites. Conditions of the suspension of the sentence was that neither of the two, Norman Stitcher, aged 32. and Kathleen West, aged 29, should be convicted of any contraventions of the act during the next two years.
Both pleaded guilty and admitted hating intercourse between the beginning of 1958 and last December. The maximum penalty for the offence is seven years’ gaol. The sentence on Snitcher. who is married with four children, was passed at the Regional Court.
The Magistrate then went on to the Women’s Hospital at the city’s main prison to pass sentence on Miss West, who had a baby on Sunday and is in bed at the hospital. The trial was held in the hospital.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31023, 31 March 1966, Page 13
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