“Mr Emembolu for the State referred to Reg. v. George Thompson (1869) 11 Cox, 362. There the trial Court reserved the question whether the possession of housebreaking implements by one of two persons for a common object is the possession of each; and the Court of Crown Cases Reserved, after hearing argument for the prisoner, said as follows: “The possession of one is the possession of all. Under the Game Laws it has been held that where several persons go out poaching in the night time, and one is armed with a gun, all are armed: (See Reg. v. Goodfellow & Anor, 1 Den. C.C.81).” We adopt that view: it is but common sense.
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