R v Sale [1910] ZASCOFSPD 3 (28 June 1910)

Master and servant.-Desertior, of service.-Review.-Proof of contract of service.-Sec. 31 of Ordinance 7 of 1904.

A magistrate has no power to convict a coloured person of desertion of service where the contract of service is oral, and is proved to have been entered into for a definite period exceeding one year.