Read the full judgment text of CACC 000316/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 9 July 1970.
1. In this case the appellant, having pleaded not guilty, was convicted of possession of a mixture containing a dangerous drug, the quantity of the drug being less than 0.1 gramme. He is 38 years of age and has never previously been convicted of any offence during his 20 years in Hong Kong. The learned magistrate accepted that he was not an addict. His counsel chose to argue the appeal against sentence first and I allowed that appeal, taking the view that such an offence is not so heinous that t