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1. The appellant, a government servant, faced two charges of having, as far back as 1972 or 1973 (the charges did not specify which) accepted a bribe of $15 in each case from other government servants. The appellant was employed, inter alia, to issue vouchers which enabled drivers of government vehicles to obtain fuel, and he was also in a position where he could assist these drivers, themselves probably illiterate, in the preparation of mileage returns. It was the prosecution's case that he rec