Rex v Cumela [1915] ZATPD 3 (1 March 1915)

Magistrate's Court.--Contempt by prisoner.-Punishment.-Sec.48, Proc. 21 of 1902.

A native a.ccused during his tria.l a.eked the interpreter to tell the magistrate that if he were a. white ma.n the Court would have allowed a certsin question that
he had asked, but because he was a black man the Court refused to a How it :Held, tha.t this constituted an insult to the magistrate, for which he was entitled
to punish the accused for contempt of Court under sec. 48 of Proclamation 21of 1902.
R. v. Swartz (1868, Buch. 13) not followed.