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1. The appellant was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm contrary to s.39 of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance, Cap. 212, the circumstances being that on the 24th September last, he was one of about forty men attending a class in a classroom of Chi Ma Wan Prison. The appellant left the classroom to attend the barbers' shop and on his return found that a certain TONG Sing-ming was occupying the seat which he himself had previously occupied. Upon being asked to vacate the s