Read the full judgment text of CACC 000617/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 26 September 1969.
1. The appellant was convicted, under Section 12 of the Protection of Women and Juveniles Ordinance, of the offence of permitting premises to be used as a brothel. The appellant who is a boy of 18 years of age was fined $500. He appeals against his conviction on a number of grounds which may, I think, be conveniently reduced to two general grounds. Firstly, it is said that the magistrate was wrong in holding that the appellant knowingly permitted the apartment to be used as a brothel and, second