Read the full judgment text of CACC 000674/1968 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 5 December 1968.
1. The appellant was charged with unlawful possession of dangerous drugs. He appeals against conviction and against the sentence of 21 months' imprisonment imposed in respect of the offence. The evidence for the prosecution was that on the evening of 8th October the appellant, who had that day been before a magistrate's court and been convicted of an offence of unlawful possession of dangerous drugs for which he was sentenced to 5 months' imprisonment, was seen by a warder in the Victoria Recept