Read the full judgment text of CACC 000210/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 26 March 1976.
1. The appellant is a young man 20 years of age and with a clear record. He is the son of a respectable and fairly wealthy family in the New Territories and assists his father there in a grocery shop. He was arrested by the police at about lunch time on 1st January this year. Two days later he appeared in the Magistrate's Court together with another young man of only 17 years of age. They were charged with three offences of robbery to each of which they both pleaded guilty. The other young man a