Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000995/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 January 1999.
1. This is an appeal against the conviction of the appellant after trial in Tuen Mun Magistracy of two offences of theft. At the outset of the trial the appellant faced one charge of theft and one charge of robbery but upon the conclusion of the evidence and having been addressed on the matter by the appellant's solicitor the learned Magistrate convicted the appellant not of robbery but of the statutory alternative offence of theft.