Largest, Most Modern, Best Equipped The result of these means, said Mr. Raphael, that an impartial mind could say now it is at least possible that both these appellants were victims of a plant, in the sense that they were being put into possession of these dangerous drugs contrary to their wishes. Therefore, only in a technical sense were they in possession of them. In the circumstances the Director of Public Prosecutions takes the view that he should not support those convictions.
He was asked to say that it was not a case where costs should be awarded against the public. Putting it at its highest, the two men were the victims of some vindictive person, and it was one thing to say they should not be convicted of an offence which was thereby disclosed and ancther to say that the public should bear the cost of the investigations into the facts.
Mr. John Maude and Mr. J. C. Phipps, who appeared for the appellants, asked for costs. Mr. Maude suggested twenty guineas, saying that as a result of the prosecution the men had been ruined.
The Chairman, Mr. Eustace Fulton, allowing the appeals, said, "Each of you can have fifteen guineas."
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