Hong Kong) dated the 15th day of July 1980 (but reduced
into writing and sent to Your Petitioner's solicitors
by letter of the 4th day of November 1980) whereby the
said Court dismissed Your Petitioner's appeal against
his conviction in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, Criminal
Jurisdiction, on the 19th day of March 1980 for the offence
of murder when he was sentenced to death.
2.
THAT the principal grounds on which this
Petition is based are:
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(a)
(b)
that the learned trial judge failed
properly to direct the jury as to
their approach to the statement given
by the Appellant under caution.
that the learned trial judge failed
to direct the jury that the cautioned
statement was equivocable as regards
his guilt of murder.
(c)
that the learned trial judge erred
in directing the jury as to the
relevant law in respect to joint
venture.
(d)
(e)
that the learned trial judge failed
to sufficiently direct the jury on
the law as to joint venture and, in
particular, as to the intention
necessary in a person who is not
present at the time of the murder.
that the learned trial judge wrongly
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