Read the full judgment text of CACC 000294/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellant, a man of only 19 years of age, was sentenced to 9 months' imprisonment for unlawful possession of dangerous drugs. He was found with one packet containing morphine and two packets containing barbitone. Despite his age he has already been convicted on three previous occasions for unlawful possession of dangerous drugs. On the first occasion he was bound over to be of good behaviour for one year, but within that year he was again convicted and sent to the Drug Addiction Treatment