13 May 1988
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. PAN CHI KEUNG AND OTHERS
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. PAN CHI KEUNG AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV132/1987
The jury's purported non‑unanimous not‑guilty verdicts without a finding on manslaughter were legally imperfect; however once the trial judge accepted those verdicts and discharged the accused there was no Hong Kong procedure to set aside that order or to continue the same indictment, so the trial as concluded must be obeyed and the respondents' arrests made to continue that indictment were unlawful; accordingly the appeal is dismissed and the judge below's order discharging the respondents and returning bail stands.