Read the full judgment text of CACC 000216/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant, aged 22 years, was convicted of possession of a packet containing a small quantity of a mixture including morphine. On the appeal, against conviction, he vigorously maintained that he had been framed by the police officer who arrested him and who had given evidence that the appellant had the packet in his hand at the time of arrest. At the trial the appellant also had given evidence, to the effect that when arrested and searched no such packet had been found upon him but nevert