Read the full judgment text of CACC 000398/1974 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an appeal against conviction for robbery of a person unknown. The sole witness for the prosecution was a police constable who, when off duty and in plain clothes at 11.25 p.m. on the night of the 1st May 1974, saw a couple being robbed at Sai Yi Street near Queen Elizabeth Playground by three Chinese males. The witness admitted that the lights there were not bright that he could "just notice" three Chinese males wearing light-coloured shirts. These he approached and the trio ran off.