Read the full judgment text of CACC 000824/1972 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an appeal against a sentence that was imposed in the North Kowloon Magistracy on the 10th of November 1972. The appellant having been charged with theft of a cart was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for that offence. Previously, on the 8th February 1972 in North Kowloon Case No. 44184 of 1972 he had been found guilty of a similar offence when a suspended sentence of three months' imprisonment was imposed. Notwithstanding the leniency afforded to him on that occasion he was again