Read the full judgment text of HCMA 780/2010 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 December 2010.
1. This is an appeal against conviction the theft from a Mannings store in Sheung Shui on the 1 August 2009, for which the appellant was put on probation. The issue was not whether the appellant had put the items the subject of the charge, ladies’ cosmetics, worth in all, $209, into his bag and left the shop without paying: it was whether he had done so dishonestly. Two PWs, a security officer and a police officer were called. The appellant gave evidence and called a psychiatrist as DW2.