Read the full judgment text of CACC 001021/1977 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The appellant was convicted of trafficking in dangerous drugs, possession of dangerous drugs and resisting arrest. He appealed against conviction and sentence. I dismissed the appeal against conviction but varied the sentence on the trafficking charge by increasing it from 18 months to 2 ½ years. Briefly the facts as found by the learned magistrate were that police officers in plain clothes observed the appellant mingle with a group of some 15 to 20 persons, who appeared to be drug addicts, a