Read the full judgment text of CACC 000162/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. We are of the opinion that this appeal must be dismissed. The appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to death on the 5th March 1969 and he appeals against his conviction. In outline the facts are simple. At the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1968, that is the 6th of October, the deceased, CHENG Sau-ying, who was a girl aged 19, was living with her family in a house in San Tin Village in the New Territories. In 1967 she had been working in a rattan factory where she met the appellant. They be