JUDGMENTBY: ABDUL HAROLD J

This is an appeal against conviction and sentence of the appellant, a probationary inspector of the Royal Malaysian Police, on two charges under section 4(a) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1961 for corruptly obtaining from one Wong Bok Yin alias Wong Yin for himself a gratification of cash $ 500 and $ 490 as an inducement for forbearing to do an act in relation to his principals affairs, to wit, to refrain from taking action against the said Wong Bok Yin for being in possession of goods which were alleged to be imitation goods.

There are numerous grounds of appeal but most of them have been abandoned by Datuk Balwant Singh counsel for the appellant. The main grounds are --

(1) that the learned President made no finding that the complainant (PW1)

was an accomplice, and, if the complainant was an accomplice, the learned

President ought to have warned himself of the danger of convicting the

appellant on the complainants uncorroborated evidence;

(2) that the learned President failed to recognize, on the facts adduced

by the prosecution, even if believed, that it was a simple straightforward

case of extortion and the appellant ought to have been ch

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