19 Mar 1997
R. v. YEN CHI WAI
- Citation
- R. v. YEN CHI WAI
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA1391/1996
The appeal was allowed because the magistrate likely relied on the police notebook as a previous consistent statement to bolster the officer's memory, creating a lingering doubt about identification and the safety of the conviction; accordingly the conviction and sentence were quashed.