Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000765/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 December 1998.
1. The appellant, YUEN Hing-yu, was convicted by Mr Alan Wright, Permanent Magistrate sitting at North Kowloon Magistracy, on 20 July of this year on his own plea of guilty of an offence of possession of a dangerous drug. The dangerous drug in question was heroin. It was quite a substantial quantity. The mixture in total weighed over 17 grammes and the heroin content of it was 16.82 grammes. It would appear that Mr Wright accepted that this represented the appellant's own personal supply of dang