Read the full judgment text of CAAR 000004/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 29 May 1979.
1. This is an application by the Attorney General for review of a sentence imposed for an offence of possession of dangerous drugs for the purpose of unlawful trafficking. The facts are very short. The Respondent was seen taking a shopping bag from another man and carrying it a very short distance. He was stopped and the bag was found to contain, underneath some vegetables, dangerous drugs consisting of 906.2 grammes of a mixture containing 250.2 grammes of salts of esters of morphine. In a stat