Read the full judgment text of CACC 000860/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 6 June 1970.
1. The two appellants were jointly charged, together with another man, with two charges of demanding money with menaces. The second appellant was also charged with the further offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The case was tried in the Magistrates Court, North Kowloon. At the conclusion of the case for the prosecution the learned magistrate ruled that no prima facie case had been made out against the second and third accused on the first charge of demanding money with menaces an