Read the full judgment text of CACC 000780/1972 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellant was charged with possession of a dangerous drug for the purpose of unlawful trafficking. The case against him was that he was seen by two plain-clothes police officers on patrol: they had information that there was a person selling dangerous drugs to workers of the Tai Koo Dockyard: their attention was drawn to the Appellant because he was standing still by a pillar while many workers were walking past: after a while they went over and searched him. They said that they found dan