Read the full judgment text of CACC 000241/1980 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 24 April 1980.
1. The appellant was charged with a staircase robbery on the morning of the 27th August 1979. The victim, one Miss Lee, was called to describe that incident at about 7.30 a.m. A report was made to the police. Some 4 days after the robbery, on the 31st August, at the Kowloon Police Headquarters Miss Lee was shown a number of photographs of which she picked out one. I will return to her evidence at a later stage. Subsequently, the appellant was located by the police, and an identification parade w