Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000412/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 August 1998.
1. In April this year, the Appellant was tried before S. Smout Esq. in the Magistrate's Court at Kwun Tong on one charge of being a member of a triad society and two counts of acting as a member of a triad society. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges. At the end of the trial, he was acquitted on the two charges of acting as a member of a triad society and convicted on the one charge of being a member of a triad society. He was sentenced to 9 months' imprisonment in respect of that charge; a