Read the full judgment text of CACC 000306/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 13 July 1970.
1. The appellant was stopped, searched and found with an amount of dangerous drugs sufficient for one smoke, and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment. He has a long record of some 12 such offences, commencing in 1949, his earlier convictions being in respect of opium. He is now aged 60. The learned magistrate said:-