WONG CHI MING v. THE QUEEN
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CACC000308/1971
(APPELLATE JURISDICTION)
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 308 OF 1971
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| BETWEEN | ||
| WONG CHI MING | Appellant | |
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| THE QUEEN | Respondent |
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Coram: Huggins, J.
Date of Judgment: 29th June, 1971.
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JUDGMENT
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1. The Appellant was one of six young men charged before the Magistrate with robbery. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. He appeals against that sentence.
2. The circumstances were that these young men, varying in age from 23 to 16, accosted four young men and threatened them with a knife. This was in the vicinity of the Lion Rock Tunnel. One of the victims ran away and was chased but he managed to escape and raised the alarm, and as a result, when the other victims were driven in the direction of a village in the vicinity, the Defendants were arrested.
3. The Appellant was first convicted of robbery in 1967. He was placed on probation for 2 years but committed a breach of the conditions of his probation and as a result was sentenced to detention in a Training Centre in 1968. In 1970 he was convicted of membership of a Triad Society and in January of this year of possession of an offensive weapon, and the Magistrate took the view that this young man had been given every opportunity to go straight and was showing no inclination to do so. He appears to have been the eldest member of this gang and in all the circumstances I think this sentence was a proper one. The appeal is dismissed.
29th June, 1971.
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