Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000094/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 25 February 1997.
1. The appellant was convicted on his own plea on 3rd January 1997 of one charge of theft. The facts were that early in the morning of Christmas day 1996 the appellant was in the MacDonald Restaurant in D'Aguilar Street having, its seems, been celebrating in the area of Lan Kwai Fong with some of his colleagues from the military. A considerable amount of drink had been taken by the appellant and it was put before the magistrate, and not contested by the prosecution, that at the time of the offen