Read the full judgment text of CACC 000595/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 24 February 1998.
1. On 29 August 1997, the Appellant was convicted before Deputy District Court Judge Poon of throwing corrosive fluid with intent contrary to section 29(c) of the Offences against the Persons Ordinance, Cap. 212, the particulars of the offence being that at Flat G, 10/F, No. 4 Hoi Wan Street, North Point, Hong Kong, the Defendant unlawfully and maliciously threw upon Kwong Kwan-wing a certain corrosive fluid, namely hydrochloric acid, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.