29 Jul 1994
R. v. CHAN KAM WAH
- Citation
- R. v. CHAN KAM WAH
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA503/1994
The magistrate did not err: a prior guilty plea and admitted facts by a co-accused do not automatically prejudice a later trial; the magistrate properly assessed the uncorroborated accomplice evidence together with other evidence (proprietor's evidence, admitted facts and interview record), applied appropriate cautions, correctly treated hearsay as explanatory, and properly used lies in interview only to assess credibility; accordingly the conviction was safe and the sentence proportionate and upheld.