Read the full judgment text of CACC 000504/1976 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is another case in which the conviction of the defendant on a charge of trafficking of dangerous drugs depends strictly upon the mechanics of the Ordinance and his failure to satisfy a magistrate that he possessed the drugs for his own consumption. As I observed in Criminal Appeal No. 503 of 1976 it is very much within the magistrate's preserve to decide whether circumstances which raise the presumption are such that a true case of trafficking has been made out. In discharging that task