Read the full judgment text of CACC 000046/2002 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 13 September 2002.
1 On 23 June 2001 the applicant was searched by the police after he emerged from a flat in Hunghom. Four packets of drugs were found on his person. This formed the basis of the first charge for which he was committed to the High Court for sentence, namely, trafficking in 27.65 grammes of a mixture containing 24.97 grammes of heroin hydrochloride. He was taken then to nearby premises, to a room which was his, and there was found 44 packets of heroin as well as paraphernalia for the packaging of d