POSSESSION OF OPIUM
WAS IT ILLEGAL? Appeals were heard in the Supreme Court yesterday before the Chief Justice, Str Robert Stout, by Hing Fung nnd Git Ton, from the decision of Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., who convicted Hing Fung of being in possession of opium in a form fit for smoking, which he held had not beeq proved to have bfien lawfully imported into New Zealand,. fining him £5O. The opium in his case was stated to be part of a quantity seized by the Crown and sent to Victoria College for treatment, part of which was allegedly stolen by other parties, but the Magistrate held that it had not been proved that the opium in Hing Fung’s possession was identical with tliat seized by the Crown, and that the defence that it could not bo said that it was unlawfully imported therefore failed. Git Ton was convicted in respect to opium seized during the pakapoo raids. Defendants did not deny the possession of tho opium. Mr. E. G. Jellicoe appeared for tho appellants, and Mr. A. Fair, for the Crown. His Honour, after hearing legal argument, reserved his judgment.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 233, 28 June 1922, Page 7
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191POSSESSION OF OPIUM Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 233, 28 June 1922, Page 7
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