Read the full judgment text of CACC 000844/1974 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant pleaded guilty to membership of a triad society and was sentenced to detention in a detention centre. It is against that sentence that he now appeals. He was picked up in a routine police sweep and subsequently admitted to having joined the 14K Triad Society as an ordinary member, in 1968, undergoing an initiation ceremony known as "Hanging the blue lantern" and being taught a few simple triad poems and hand signs.