Read the full judgment text of CACC 000939/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 January 1972.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. In the court below the appellant a youth of 16 pleaded guilty to robbery and was ordered to be detained in the training centre for the statutory period. The robbery took place on the 10th floor of Ocean View Apartments in Chatham Road, Kowloon. The appellant acted as lookout man when the other accused persons, who were also aged between 18 and 16, robbed the inmates, two Chinese females of a wristwatch and cash. The robbery was carried out at knife point an