Read the full judgment text of CACC 000390/1974 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 3 January 1975.
1. The first appellant, CHAN Ping-kwong, was convicted upon a single count of rape and the second appellant was convicted of aiding and abetting in the commission of that offence. It was common ground that the first appellant had been on friendly terms with the complainant, LAM Wai-man, a girl of eighteen years of age, for some months prior to the 26th of July 1973, the date laid in the charge. She had met him at a swimming party in March 1973 and thereafter she went out with him to films and te