30 Aug 1978
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. YIU WUN-YING
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. YIU WUN-YING
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC672/1978
The magistrate erred by applying an incorrect test—demanding mathematical certainty for circumstantial evidence and assessing pieces of evidence in isolation; the correct test is whether the evidence, taken as a whole, was such that a reasonable magistrate might convict, and on that basis a trial de novo was ordered.