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Topic

Corroboration of accomplice testimony

Legal area

Court

13 Dec 1985

THE QUEEN v. HEUNG MUHHAMMAD (D1) AND ANOTHER

Citation

THE QUEEN v. HEUNG MUHHAMMAD (D1) AND ANOTHER
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC180/1985

The convictions were upheld because the complainant's testimony was corroborated by the discovery of a suction/curettage apparatus and related material and the misdirections and non-directions, while undesirable, were not of such gravity as to vitiate the verdicts; however the court found the original sentences excessive and substituted reduced custodial terms (D1 reduced to 2 years, D2 reduced to 18 months) to run from 23 April 1985.
5 Jul 1979

CHU SHING MING v. THE QUEEN

Citation

CHU SHING MING v. THE QUEEN
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACC536/1979

Because there was no corroborative evidence and the magistrate failed to warn himself of the danger of convicting on uncorroborated accomplice testimony, the conviction was unsafe; the appellate court could not be certain it would have convicted absent seeing and hearing the witnesses, therefore the conviction was quashed and sentence set aside.