Read the full judgment text of CACC 000268/1992 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 11 June 1993.
1. The applicant was convicted after trial before His Honour Judge Yeung in the district court on two charges of cheating at gambling, contrary to section 16(1)(a) of the Gambling Ordinance, Cap. 148, and two charges of obtaining property by deception, contrary to section 17(1) of the Theft Ordinance, Cap. 210. He was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment on both the first cheating at gambling charge and second obtaining property by deception charge, and to 18 months' imprisonment on t