Read the full judgment text of CACC 000606/1998 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 5 May 1999.
1. The applicant Yim Ying-kin faced one charge of robbery and one charge of remaining in Hong Kong without the authority of the Director of Immigration after having landed unlawfully in Hong Kong. At a trial in the District Court before His Honour Judge Line, he was convicted after a trial of the robbery charge. The robbery charge was that he had together with another person D2 robbed a taxi driver of an amount of cash, a wallet and a wrist watch. He was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months impriso