The Weekly Law Reports
[1968] 2 WLR 1303
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
WARNER APPELLANT AND METROPOLITAN POLICE COMMISSIONER RESPONDENT
[ON APPEAL FROM REG. v. WARNER]
1968 Feb. 13,
14,
15,
19,
20;
May 2
May 2
LORD REID, LORD MORRIS OF BORTH-Y-GEST, LORD GUEST, LORD PEARCE and LORD WILBERFORCE.
Crime
— Drugs
— Unauthorised “possession” of
— Meaning
— Defendant in possession of box which he knew to contain something
— Whether defence that he did not know it contained drugs
—
Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1964 (c. 64), s. 1 (1).