Read the full judgment text of CACC 000576/1977 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellants were originally charged with six offences of blackmail and seven charges of theft and the particulars of the offences were that between the 4th and 18th March, 1977, they made demands from one LAM Ping-kwan with menaces and were given various sums of money by Mr. Lam in satisfaction of those unwarranted demands. At the close of the case for the prosecution the magistrate amended the charges. He substituted two charges as follows:-