Read the full judgment text of CACC 000513/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 November 1969.
1. The notices of appeal indicate that the appellants appeal against their convictions for corruptly soliciting. When the case came before the single judge he said that although the appellants had been charged with four offences under s.3(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Ordinance no conviction had been recorded. Moreover, the evidence appeared to him so thin that he was doubtful whether it would support convictions on the first charge. Finally he observed that the appellants had been sentence