Read the full judgment text of CACC 000670/1968 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 December 1968.
1. The appellant appeals against his conviction on a charge of unlawful possession of dangerous drugs. A police officer was on plain clothes patrol in Tung Tau Resettlement Estate when he saw the appellant walking along in a furtive manner. He appeared to have something clenched in his left hand. The constable says that he went up to the appellant, searched him and found in his left hand an orange-coloured packet. This packet he subsequently handed to another constable whom he saw to write parti