22-year-old father claimed that the arresting Police officers could not prove the drugs found were his.

Under questioning from Police prosecutor Sgt. Rex Osborne, narcotics officers Det. Con. Suzette Tucker and Det. Con. Clinton Burgess said they were given "specific information'' of activities taking place on the corner of Elliot and Princess Streets in Hamilton on January 9, 1991.

They and a third officer attended the scene in an unmarked patrol car and saw Terence Eugene Seymour standing nearby. According to both Det. Con. Tucker and Det. Con. Burgess, Seymour jumped up and sat on a wall when they approached him.

The officers testified they saw "a brown piece of paper in his left hand'', which he threw over the wall and onto a private lawn.

Det. Con. Burgess said after he retrieved it, he opened the paper twist in front of Seymour and revealed five plastic twists filled with "a white, rock-like substance'', which was later found to be cocaine.

Seymour was then placed under arrest on suspicion of possessing a controlled drug.

He reportedly told officers at the time: "That's not mine.'' In two subsequent interviews with Police, and in court, Seymour maintained the twist and its contents were not his, and that they were already on the lawn when the officers drove up.

Magistrate the Wor. John Judge adjourned the case until December 1, to allow Seymour time to find witnesses for his defence. Seymour, of no fixed abode, will continue to represent himself.