Brown J:

The facts and arguments sufficiently appear from the judgment.

The Appellant was convicted by the learned Magistrate of being in possession of 9'bd yards of cloth valued at $10 which was reasonably suspected of being stolen or fraudulently obtained, contrary to s. 34(1) of the Minor Offences Ordinance, and was sentenced to six weeks' rigorous imprisonment.

The case for the prosecution was that at 8.50 p.m. on 28 June two police officers of the Singapore Harbour Police were on patrol near the Harbour Board Traffic Office. They saw a man walking, with something gripped under his armpit, in the direction of Gate 5. They flashed their torches on him, and the man ran about 20 feet towards the fence which borders Keppel Road. When he reached the fence he threw the bundle over the fence into Keppel Road. As soon as the man started to run the two policemen gave chase, and while they were giving chase over that distance of 20 feet they kept their torches flashed on to the man all the time. They caught him after he had thrown the bundle over the fence, and the man whom they caught was the accused. One of the police officers recovered the bundle from Keppel Road, and it was