Read the full judgment text of CACC 000167/1972 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant, a youth aged 20, was convicted by a magistrate at the Wong Tai Sin Magistracy of the charge preferred against him of possession of dangerous drugs for the purposes of unlawful trafficking therein. Upon conviction, he was sentenced to 27 months' imprisonment. He appealed against both his conviction and the sentence imposed. Upon the hearing of the appeal I allowed the appeal and varied the conviction from one of possession of dangerous drugs for the purposes of unlawful traffick