HKSAR v. HUNG WA WAI
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HCMA000707/1998
HCMA 707/98
IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE
HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
APPELLATE JURISDICTION
MAGISTRACY APPEAL NO. 707 OF 1998
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| BETWEEN | ||
| HKSAR | Respondent | |
| AND | ||
| HUNG WA WAI | Appellant |
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Coram: Deputy Judge Jackson in Court
Date of Hearing: 7 January 1999
Date of Judgment: 7 January 1999
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J U D G M E N T
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1. On 3rd July 1998 at North Kowloon Magistrates Court this appellant was convicted after trial of an offence of managing a vice-establishment. He was sentenced to a term of 4 months' imprisonment.
2. This appeal came before me this morning as an appeal against conviction only. It became plain that the appellant had no grounds of appeal against conviction whatsoever. Indeed he conceded that his conviction was correct and that all he was seeking was a reduction in sentence. That being so I granted the appellant leave to appeal against sentence out of time and treated this hearing as that appeal.
3. The appellants only grounds of appeal against sentence are firstly that his mother has recently had a heart operation and needs his assistance at home and secondly that when he started work at the vice-establishment he understood that all that he would be required to do was to act as a cleaner.
4. The sentence imposed upon the appellant by the learned Magistrate cannot be faulted and the appellant has presented no convincing reasons before me why that sentence should be reduced.
5. The appeals against both conviction and sentence are accordingly dismissed.
| (C. G. Jackson) | |
| Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance |
Representation:
Mr. Albert Wong, SGC for HKSAR/DPP.
Mr. Hung Wa Wai, Appellant in Person.