28 Jun 1993
THE QUEEN v. CHAN HON WAI
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. CHAN HON WAI
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA340/1993
The conviction was unsafe because the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the appellant deliberately struck the complainant on the head with the revolver; the expert's theorising about the mechanism of injury was improperly influential and the injury pattern and witness evidence were inconsistent with the Crown's case, creating reasonable doubt.