Read the full judgment text of CACC 000565/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. On his trial before a judge sitting with a jury the Appellant was convicted of murder. It is sufficient to state the circumstances in a very few words. A girl aged 8 years was missing from her home. The Appellant was then living at her home but shortly afterwards left his job in a plastics factory and went to live and work at a building site in Shatin. After the child's disappearance was reported an anonymous telephone call was received and as a result the police sought the Appellant. When he