Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000551/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 10 July 1996.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. The appellant was charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He admitted before the Magistrate to having assaulted another inmate but he denied having used a ball-pen and said that he had used his fingernails. The learned Magistrate conducted a Newton enquiry and at the end of the enquiry held that it was a ball-pen which the appellant had used. He sentenced the appellant to 6 months imprisonment.