Read the full judgment text of CACC 000264/1995 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 25 August 1995.
1. The applicant seeks leave to appeal against the sentence of 3½ years' imprisonment imposed upon him for simple possession of dangerous drugs. He was stopped in the street in the evening of the 2nd of August 1994 and a search revealed a plastic bag with four packets of a mixture of 117.44 grammes containing 27.72 grammes of salts of esters of morphine upon him. There had been an attempt to escape and a severe struggle before he was arrested. The applicant admitted the possession upon his arres