Read the full judgment text of CACC 000254/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 27 May 1971.
1. The appellant appeals against a conviction for wounding. The case for the prosecution, in the ultimate analysis, turns entirely on identification of the appellant by the victim. They were known to each prior to the incident. The victim gave evidence to the effect that late one night, i.e. at 10.50 p.m. on the 10th January 1971, he was alone near his home at the Tai Hang Tung Resettlement Estate, when he was surrounded by a number of persons, one of whom was the appellant who chopped him with