Read the full judgment text of CACC 000935/1975 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. These three appellants pleaded guilty to membership of a triad society. They are all mature men and with experience of the criminal world well before they joined such a society. In those circumstances there may be some who would think that the sentences of six months imposed by the learned magistrate were justified. But such a sentence is not usual unless there is some evidence to satisfy the Court that there is some form of what might be termed active membership. There is a suspicion in this