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COURT OF APPEAL KUALA LUMPUR
CHAN CHWEN KONG – Appellant
Versus
PP – Respondent
[1] This appellant was convicted at Johore on 22 April this year for the murder of a woman and her child and was sentenced to death. He has appealed against his convictions.
[2] We have had the benefit of listening to a very thorough and very persuasive argument from Counsel for the appellant for which we are grateful because we have derived much assistance from it. I trust it will not be taken as detracting from that in any way if I say that in our opinion all the grounds of appeal that have been urged upon us are with one exception of little substance.
[3] In the first place we have listened to a careful, accurate and detailed analysis of the evidence against the appellant. That evidence was entirely circumstantial and what the criticism of it amounts to is this, that no single piece of that evidence is strong enough to sustain the convictions. That is very true. It must, however, be borne in mind that in cases like this where the evidence is wholly circumstantial what has to be considered is not only the strength of each individual strand of evidence but also the combined strength of these strands when twisted together to make a rope. The real question is: is
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