Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001217/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 February 1996.
1. This was an appeal against a sentence of six months for assaulting a police officer. The facts were that just before 2 p.m. on 8th July 1995, a group of police officers on foot patrol saw the appellant sitting in his taxi injecting drugs into his arm. They approached to investigate and revealed their identities. As one of the officers tried to get into the taxi, he was pushed by the appellant, who then started his taxi and drove away. The police officer was still partly inside the taxi but th