2 Jun 1983
THE QUEEN v. CHAN CHAU-SANG AND OTHERS
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. CHAN CHAU-SANG AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC760/1982
The conviction for possession was quashed because the trial judge's direction that knowledge arising only when firearms were fired could sustain a conviction for constructive possession was legally erroneous; however where a factual slip or limited misdirection did not produce a miscarriage of justice the proviso was applied to uphold the robbery conviction because there was ample evidence of participation; testimony of a witness about his own words and observations is admissible and distinguishable from hearsay ruled in Christie; sentencing for armed robbery including separate possession cou…