Abdul Malik Ishak JC:

[1] This is an appeal by the Public Prosecutor against the sentence passed by the learned Magistrate, Magistrate's Court, Selama, Perak, on the respondent who was charged as follows:

Bahawa kamu pada 25 September 1986 jam lebih kurang 9.15 pagi di rumab No 31, Peringkatl Feldal jok Redang Panjang Selama, dalam dacrah Solama, dalam Negeri Perak, telah didapati memiliki 0.85 gram dadah berbabaya iaitu heroin dan olch yang demikian itu kamu telah melakukan suatu kesalahan di bawah s 12(2) dan bolch dihukum di bawah s 12(3) Akta Dadah Berbahaya No: 3011952.

[2] The respondent pleaded guilty to the charge and was duly convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment to be followed by one year of police supervision.

[3] The facts adduced by the prosecution and admitted by the respondent are briefly that at about 9.15 am. on 25 September 1986 a party of police officers headed by Inspector Abu Bakar raided house number 31, Peringkat 1, Felda Ijok, Redang Panjang, Selama and arrested the respondent who was, at the material time, alone and seated on the floor of his bedroom filling powder suspected to be drugs into a plastic straw. The police seized the plastic str