Read the full judgment text of CACC 000498/1984 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The defendant TSE Kau was charged in the District Court with two offences of theft. He was convicted of handling under both charges. The second charge relates to some 9,000 pairs of jeans worth $241,000, the property of one LEUNG Tin-chu. It is undisputed that these were loaded aboard a lorry which was parked at the roadside with its load aboard, on the night of the 28th to 29th May, 1984. During that night, some persons broke into the lorry and drove it off together with its cargo. These jea