[2010] EWCA Crim 163

A conviction for having an offensive weapon without lawful authority or reasonable excuse was safe, notwithstanding certain omissions in the judge's directions to the jury, as the case against the offender was overwhelming. An application for permission to add as a ground of appeal that a car driving along a public highway at the moment it was stopped by the police was not a public place within the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 s.1(1) , was rejected.

CA (Crim Div) (Dyson LJ, Swift J, Sweeney J)

12/01/2010