Read the full judgment text of CACC 412/2012 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 10 May 2013.
1. The applicant, a 46-year-old national of South Africa, seeks leave to appeal out of time against a sentence of 12 years and four months’ imprisonment imposed upon her by Saw J on 2 May 2012. That sentence was imposed by Saw J, before whom she appeared having been committed for sentence, following her plea of guilty in the Magistracy on 2 March 2012 to a single charge of unlawful trafficking in a dangerous drug on 4 August 2011, namely 370 grammes of heroin hydrochloride and 150 grammes of mon