rayuan jenayah no: a-05-120-2009 antara mohd kamal bin osman

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[7] SP4 succeeded in apprehending the appellant with the assistance
of the other members of the police party.
[8] SP4 conducted a body search on the appellant but nothing
incriminating was found on him. SP4 then examined the motorcycle in the
presence of the appellant and the police party and found a black coloured
plastic bag (exhibit “P5C”) in the carrier basket of the motorcycle ridden
by the appellant. The photograph at page 145 of the appeal record shows
the black coloured plastic bag with the drugs in question.
[9] When SP4 opened the black coloured plastic bag (exhibit “P5C”),
he found four (4) compressed slabs of plant materials suspected to be
cannabis. SP4 also detected the pungent smell of the cannabis emanating
from the black coloured plastic bag (exhibit “P5C”).
[10] The evidence of SP4 was amply corroborated by SP5. SP5
travelled in the said motor car with SP4 and SP5 gave a running
commentary on similar terms like SP4 in regard to the narration of the
events preceding the arrest of the appellant. SP5 emphasised that the
appellant rode the said motorcycle alone throughout the episode and that
the appellant tried to run but was duly arrested.
[11] In due course the government chemist – Miss Lam Yoke Ching
(SP6), confirmed that the four (4) compressed slabs of plant materials to be