CHAN YAT MING v. THE QUEEN
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CACC000306/1971
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
(APPELLATE JURISDICTION)
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 306 of 1971
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| BETWEEN | ||
| CHAN YAT MING | Appellant | |
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| THE QUEEN | Respondent |
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Coram: Huggins, J.
Date of Judgment: 8th June, 1971.
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JUDGMENT
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1. The Appellant pleaded guilty to theft and was sentenced to 6 months" imprisonment.
2. Early in the morning he was found removing some tools from the back of a car while the owner was washing his face at a stand-pipe nearby. Before me the Appellant, although he admitted the facts in the lower court, has alleged that the tools were not in the car at all but on the ground and that he was merely looking at them.
3. The Appellant has been before the court on six previous occasions. On two of them he was bound over to be of good behaviour and on another he was conditionally discharged. All the offences were for this type of dishonesty. It is obvious that leniency has not had any effect on the Appellant and the sentence of 6 months' imprisonment was fully justified.
4. The appeal is dismissed.
8th June, 1971.
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