Read the full judgment text of CACC 000193/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 23 March 1979.
1. Wong Hing was charged in the Magistrate's Court with having dangerous drugs, 2.2 grammes of a mixture containing .6 gramme of salts of esters of morphine, heroin, in his possession for the purpose of unlawful trafficking. He was also charged with having in his possession "a match-box cover and five tinfoils fit and intended for the inhalation of a dangerous drug, namely match-box cover containing less than .1 gramme of salts of esters of morphine". I quote the wording of the second charge to