Read the full judgment text of CACC 000320/1981 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. On the 22nd February 1981 the appellant was in a supermarket in Choi Wan Estate. She was seen to take a bottle of shoe oil and put it under her coat. She left the supermarket without making payment and was stopped outside it. There was then, after search, found upon her person one set of colour pencils and a book case, two other pencils, one box of pencils and a packet of biscuits unpaid for. The total value of the goods was trivial in the sence of amount, they being priced at $26.50.