Read the full judgment text of CACC 22/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant was convicted of loitering at night contrary to s.26A of the Summary Offences Ordinance (Cap.228) and of going equipped for stealing contrary to the Theft Ordinance (No.21 of 1970 s.27). He was sentenced to three months imprisonment on the first charge and to nine months on the second charge, both sentences to run concurrently. The learned magistrate’s powers of sentence on the second charge being limited, by virtue of 2.91 of the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap.227) to a sentence of