Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000466/1985 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 June 1985.
1. The appellant pleaded not guilty in the Magistrates Court to 13 charges of offences under the Theft Ordinance. The first charge alleged the offence of theft under that Ordinance and the other 12 alleged the offence of obtaining property by deception. At the end of the trial the magistrate acquitted the appellant of all the offences of obtaining property by deception, but convicted him on the charge of theft.