Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000315/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 July 1998.
1. On 25th of February this year, the Appellant pleaded guilty before a Magistrate sitting at the Eastern Magistracy to one charge of Publishing Obscene Articles and one charge of Possession of Obscene Articles for the Purposes of Publication contrary to S.21(1)(a) and (b) respectively of the Control Of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance, Cap.309. On 11th March, having considered the psychiatric and background reports and the mitigations put forward, the learned Magistrate sentenced the App