Read the full judgment text of CACC 000205/1974 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an appeal against sentence. The appellant was originally charged with the offence of keeping an opium divan contrary to s.35(1) of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. The particulars of offence in the original charge were that he, the appellant, did keep an opium divan where a dangerous drug, namely prepared opium, was sold to be smoked therein. At the trial, for reasons best known to the prosecution, this charge was amended to that of keeping an opium divan with the particulars of offence