Read the full judgment text of CACC 000101/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 26 September 1997.
1. The applicant faced 12 charges: one of uttering a forged document, one of using a copy of a false instrument and ten of using a false instrument contrary to s.73 of the Crimes Ordinance, Cap.200. After trial before Gould D.J., he was found not guilty of the first two charges but guilty of each of the charges of using a false instrument. These charges alleged that on ten occasions between 1st November 1994 and 2nd January 1996, the applicant had used an instrument, namely a rent receipt, which