11 Feb 1997
R. v. KONG HOO MING
- Citation
- R. v. KONG HOO MING
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA1036/1996
The appeal is allowed because the magistrate's decisive inferences — that the appellant hid the packet and left immediately so there was no time to forget — were not supported by the evidence (which showed the appellant waited in the queue and said he forgot); absent reliable evidence on timing and concealment the conviction was unsafe and must be quashed.