Read the full judgment text of CACC 000180/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 14 May 1970.
1. The appellant is a young man aged 24. At the material time he was a warder in H.M. Prison at Stanley. He was charged with possession of a substantial quantity of dangerous drugs found upon him; by reason of the quantity so found the statutory presumption arose that it was not a case of simple possession but that the appellant was in possession of those dangerous drugs for the purposes of unlawful trafficking. He was further charged with introducing an unauthorised article into a prison. On bo