16 Dec 2020
香港特別行政區 訴 賴錦鋒
- Citation
- [2020] HKCA 1031
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC81/2019
Because the defence consistently denied possession and never advanced self‑use, and because the totality of the evidence (quantity and value of drugs, circumstances at scene, absence of defence evidence of drug use) did not provide a reasonable evidential basis for a jury to convict of simple possession, the trial judge did not err in declining to direct the jury on the alternative verdict; accordingly the application for leave was properly refused and the conviction stands.