Read the full judgment text of CACC 000342/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 20 July 1970.
1. In this appeal against a conviction of possession of a small quantity of dangerous drugs the appellant advanced before me the same case as he put to the learned magistrate, namely how could he have had dangerous drugs in his jacket pocket when it was obviously so cut or torn as not to be capable of holding anything. In his judgment the magistrate said that: "The torn pocket explanation has now become so common as to be ludicrous, particularly as it is never mentioned till the day of trial, as