Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000100/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 June 1995.
1. This is an appeal against sentence passed by Mr. Wright in Tuen Mun, for possession of single straw containing 0.11 grammes of narcotic. He was sentenced to a period of 12 months imprisonment and a suspended sentence was activated. In his reasons for sentence the magistrate said: "In sentencing the Appellant I had due regard to the fact that he had six previous convictions of which two were drug related, that he committed this offence only some 3½ months after being given a suspended sentence