Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000009/2004 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 May 2004.
1. On 5 December 2003 before Stephen Smout Esq in the Magistrate's Court at Kowloon City, the Appellant, a man then aged 56, was convicted after trial on a charge of robbery and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Three months of that sentence were made concurrent with, and the rest of it was made consecutive to, a nine-month term imposed on him on 15 September 2003 in another case. His appeal against sentence came on for hearing before McMahon J on 13 February 2004. He was then in person, and