12 May 1994
TAI YIU WAH v. R.
- Citation
- TAI YIU WAH v. R.
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC249/1993
The evidence (two months' use of the room, personal belongings found in the same box as forged banknotes, large number and locations of forged credit cards) permitted a lawful inference that the applicant possessed and knew the items were forged; and because the trial occurred after legislative amendment reducing the penalty for simple possession, Article 12(1) required imposing the lighter sentence provided by the new provision, so the original four year sentence for possession of forged dies was unlawful and must be reduced to two and a half years.