Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 9 August 1990.
1. On 13th February 1990 the applicant, Kan Wah Cheung, appeared for trial before Bewley, J. on an indictment containing two counts, one of murder and the second a substituted count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. To the murder count he pleaded not guilty, to the second count he pleaded guilty. The first count of murder was put again and the accused entered a plea of guilty to manslaughter, a plea accepted by the Crown and eventually by the Court.