Read the full judgment text of CACC 000668/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 22 October 1969.
1. The appellant was charged before the magistrate on charges of keeping an opium divan and smoking opium. When he first appeared he pleaded not guilty but subsequently changed his pleas to guilty. The appellant and his co-accused were found in a small hut with all the paraphernalia for smoking opium. There was one pipe amongst that paraphernalia. His story throughout has been that this was what one might call a private divan: it was a group of friends which had got together and asked him to ren