Read the full judgment text of CACC 000818/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 9 January 1970.
1. The appellant was the first of three defendants jointly charged with possession of dangerous drugs for the purpose of unlawful trafficking. The first, second and third defendants were respectively husband, wife and their 22 year old son. The son pleaded guilty to the charge but the parents pleaded not guilty. The evidence was that a police party raided the flat in which the family lived and found therein a wooden box containing a tin, which in turn was found to contain a substantial quantity