Read the full judgment text of CACC 000440/1974 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. I have come to the conclusion that this conviction cannot stand and that there must be a new trial. It is unnecessary to say more than that the learned magistrate regarded the evidence of Mr. Robert Poon, one of the defence witnesses, as "of little value because he did not follow the cars along Yuen Long Main Road after passing the roundabout". The Appellant asserts that that was a misunderstanding of the evidence of Mr. Poon. Unfortunately Mr. Poon's evidence on this point was ambiguous. No