Read the full judgment text of CACC 000269/1972 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellants appeal against sentences of nine months' imprisonment imposed on each of them for possession of offensive weapons in a public place contrary to Sec.33(1) of the Public Order Ordinance. The brief facts of the case are that the appellants in the small hours of the morning of 17th March 1972 were in a private motor car which they had borrowed from a friend when they were stopped by alert police officers. They were searched, and each was found to have concealed in the waist band of