The defendant appealed against a conviction for the possession of drugs.
Held: ‘In the ordinary use of the word ‘possession’, one has in one’s possession whatever is, to one’s knowledge, physically in one’s custody or under one’s physical control.’
Judges:
Lord Diplock
Citations:
[1974] AC 862, (1974) 59 Cr App R 185, [1974] 2 All ER 840
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Porter, Regina v CACD 16-Mar-2006
The defendant appealed his conviction of possession of indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children. The images had been deleted, and were irrecoverable, but they had originally been viewed through a program which created a smaller . .
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Crime
Updated: 12 December 2022; Ref: scu.242678
