Read the full judgment text of CACC 000016/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 26 March 1997.
1. On his own pleas of guilty to three charges of possession drugs and one of possession of arms without licence, the applicant Jeffrey Savage was convicted of those offences by His Honour Judge Whaley in the District Court on 12th December 1996. He then very carefully considered the circumstances, which included these. The packages of drugs found were relatively very small indeed. One lot was of 4.20 grammes of "ice" containing 4.09 grammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride , another 406.87 gram