Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000250/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 10 July 1997.
1. Having been convicted of a charge of trafficking in a small quantity of a dangerous drug, namely, 0.6 gramme of a mixture containing 0.7 gramme of salt of esters of morphine, the appellant was sentenced to a term of 27 months' imprisonment. The sentencing guidelines for the offence of trafficking in less than 10 grammes of drug has been established to be one of two to five years' imprisonment. The learned Magistrate adopted a starting point of two years and then, in effect, increased it to a