Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001151/1988 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 18 January 1989.
1. The appellant originally faced two charges, namely, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and robbery. Upon hearing evidence of the prosecution witnesses as well as that of the appellant, the magistrate acquitted him of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and, on the robbery charge, convicted him of the alternative offence of theft under Sec. 32 of the Theft Ordinance.