Read the full judgment text of CACC 000420/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 24 December 1971.
2. The substance of the evidence for the Prosecution was that at 3.00 p.m. the police raided a flat in Portland Street, Kowloon. When they rang the bell there was at first no answer and they started to break down the door. Then the door was opened by the 6th Applicant, who was wearing pyjamas. Two cubicles in the flat were locked on the inside. The doors of both were broken in and in the first cubicle the police found the first four Applicants sitting in a semi-circle around a large quantity of