Read the full judgment text of CACC 000598/1975 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. I am taking an unusual course in the present case. The Appellant was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for unlawful possession of dangerous drugs. He had two previous convictions for similar offences and, on the face of it, it could not be said that the sentence was fairly open to question. It is, however, a special case because of the circumstances of the Appellant. He is a young man of good family. He got into bad company and started using drugs. He was convicted in June 1971 and place