Read the full judgment text of CACC 000249/1995 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 20 September 1995.
1. In the early hours of 22nd August, 1994, the police intercepted an unlit motorised sampan in Deep Bay. The prosecution evidence was that when the police fired an illumination flare the sampan turned back but was eventually stopped by the police at which time the applicant was seen to be steering the vessel. There were six other men on board, being the six particularised in the charge, all of whom it was admitted were unauthorised entrants. Upon being asked, the applicant said that he had been