Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000070/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 March 1999.
1. On 30 December 1998, the appellant having earlier pleaded guilty before J L Saunders Esquire, magistrate, to the offence of possession of a dangerous drug, namely .08 grammes of a mixture containing trace elements of heroin hydrochloride, he was sentenced to 8 months' imprisonment. He now appeals that sentence upon the general grounds it was too severe.