Read the full judgment text of CACC 000887/1980 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. In this case the learned magistrate sentenced Ng Ting Ka to two years' imprisonment on the 1st October 1980. It was clear that the learned magistrate was worried about the case because when the Appellant first appeared before him he noted that the Appellant behaved in an apparently mentally disorderly manner and therefore very properly adjourned the matter for a psychiatric report to be obtained as to his fitness to plead. That report was obtained; it was quite a short one. The doctor at that