Read the full judgment text of CACC 195/1973 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The Appellant appeals against a sentence of 18 months’ imprisonment for possession of dangerous drugs for the purpose of trafficking. He was stopped in the middle of the night and searched, and upon him was found a phial containing 7.5 grammes of a mixture containing 2.5 grammes of salts of esters of morphine. That was a sufficient quantity to give rise to the presumption that he was trafficking. His contention throughout has been that the drugs were for his own consumption. The learned magis