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1. The Appellant was charged before the learned magistrate with possession of dangerous drugs for the purpose of unlawful trafficking. The police laid an ambush on a hill-side at about midnight on 6th/7th August. They said that they saw the Appellant climbing the hill and looking behind him: he was stopped and, presumably with an instinctive motion, put both his hands on his left trouser pocket, although he said, when asked why he did that, that a bamboo had pierced his left thigh. However, insi