Read the full judgment text of CACC 000642/1968 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 December 1968.
1. The appellant pleaded guilty before the learned magistrate to a charge of obtaining money by false pretences or by means of some other fraud. The particulars of offence were that he and another "did, on the 12th of September 1968 at Kowloon in this Colony with intent to defraud, obtain from Lau Wu $5000, Hong Kong currency, by falsely pretending that he was in the position to authorize Lau Wu, Li Tin and Yau San to undertake the construction work of a canidrome in Ma Wan, New Territories". He