Read the full judgment text of CACC 000666/1977 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is indeed an unfortunate case as counsel on both sides have agreed. The Appellant was charged before the magistrate with possession of dangerous drugs for the purpose of unlawful trafficking. The particulars of the charge related to four packets of dangerous drugs as one item and a plastic phial containing another quantity of dangerous drugs as another item. The items were found in two rooms in a resettlement estate. Those rooms, it is conceded, were separate and distinct units. They wer