Read the full judgment text of CACC 000215/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 24 March 1976.
1. The appellant is a lady with a long history of thefts and other offences. Last October she was off again. She chose the cut-price garments store at the entrance to the Daimaru Department Store in Causeway Bay. When the opportunity arose she unzipped the handbag of one of the customers and took from the bag what appears now to have been two receipts for school fees paid through the medium of a local bank. The appellant had a quick look at the two receipts and immediately replaced them in the b