Read the full judgment text of CACC 000516/1974 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant was convicted of the manslaughter of his five-year-old daughter and upon a second count in the same indictment in which he was charged with cruelty to a child contrary to the provisions of Section 27(1) of the Offences Against The Person Ordinance, Cap. 212. The child died upon the 4th day of October 1973 the cause of death being described in the doctor's report as "massive left subdural haemorrhage". She was taken to the Hong Kong Sanitorium at 8.00 a.m. on the 4th of October b