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Possession of key. - Where an unlicensed pistol is recovered from a flour mill of which the key was supplied by A it cannot be said positively that A was in conscious possessi2n and actual control of the pistol when there were 3 persons including A working at the mill. Possession of key of box tends to show that accused must gave knowledge of the arms inside and hence is sufficient. possession for purposes of the Act. . Where the convict was found sleeping in front of his cattle house and himself produced the key with which the lock of the cattle - house containing lahan was opened. He was deemed to be in the exclusive possession of the cattle- house and lahan which was recovered from inside ..