IN THE HIGH COURT OF SWAZILAND
HELD AT MBABANE CASE NO: 849/09
In the matter between: REX VERSUS
CHICCO MANYANYA IDDI
Date of hearing: 23 September, 2009 Date of judgment: 23 September, 2009
Mrs. Attorney M. Dlamini - Director of Public Prosecution
for the Crown Mr. Attorney M. Mabila for the Accused
EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT
MASUKU J.
[1] The accused person Chicco Manyanya Iddi stands before me charged with four offences in which the Crown alleges that he contravened the provisions of Pharmacy Act of 1929 as amended. In terms of the charge sheet he is
alleged on 24 July, 2009 to have possessed some 42 sachets of cocaine and also to have imported the same number of sachets. In the rest of the counts he is charged with having imported the said substance in contravention of the Act.
The accused upon being called upon pleaded guilty to all the counts, and in consequences thereof his plea was duly confirmed by his attorney of record.
Thereafter an agreed statement of fact was read out for the record and the accused admitted that the statement of agreed facts as being accurate and a true and correct reflection of the events that took place on the date in question. Furthermore there are certain documentary exhibits which have by consent been admitted, and on the basis of the accused's plea of guilty, and the agreed statement of facts which include the particular elements of the offence, I am well satisfied that the accused is guilty of contravening on count 1 the provisions of section 12(1) (a) of the Pharmacy Act and that on count 2 he is guilty of contravening section 12(1) (c) of the Pharmacy Act as amended, and that in count 3, he is guilty of contravening section 12 (1) (a) of the Pharmacy Act and that on count 4 he is guilty of contravening the provisions section 12 (c) of the Pharmacy Act as amended.
DELIVERED IN OPEN COURT IN MBABANE ON THIS THE 23rd DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2009.
T.S. MASUKU JUD&E
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