Read the full judgment text of CACC 000037/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 2 April 1970.
1. The appellant, a warder at Stanley Prison at the relevant time, was charged with, and convicted of, the offence of attempting to obtain money by false pretences. The particulars of the charge preferred against him was that he, on the 10th October 1969, at Tsuen Wan, with intent to defraud, did attempt to obtain from CHEUNG Kwok-chuen $300 by falsely pretending that a written message which he delivered to the said CHEUNG Kwok-chuen at his home address, was a request from CHEUNG Kwok-ki, elder