Read the full judgment text of CACC 001049/1974 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 7 January 1975.
1. This appellant was convicted of possession of dangerous drugs for the purpose of unlawful trafficking. That conviction rested solely on the evidence of one man, an officer of the Preventive Service, who claimed to have bought a packet of heroin from the appellant and which the appellant took from a black leather purse on the ground in front of where he was squatting down. The other packets were found in the purse. The purchase was paid for with a marked ten-dollar note, which the witness late