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judge on the verdict they should return. When the jury returned,
the prisoner and his co-accused were duly rearraigned but they
reverted to their original plea of not guilty to all the charges,
whereupon Trainor J. discharged the jury and ordered a retrial, which retrial was heard before me, the outcome of which I have already
indicated. But as the jury have found the prisoner guilty of murder,
and on the evidence adduced I consider rightly so, should Your
Excellency decide to commute the death sentence I would respectfully
recommend that a sentence of between 15 to 20 years' imprisonment
be substituted for the sentence of death.
In conclusion, as I sentenced the prisoner to death I did not pass sentence on him in relation to the other two offences of
assault with intent to rob and wounding with intent to do grievous
bodily harm. If I had been called upon to pass sentence with regard to these two offences my sentence would have been a term of six years' imprisonment for each offence, such terms to be served concurrently one with the other, as this was the sentence I imposed on the prisoner's
co-accused, and in the latter's case to be served concurrently with the term of 10 years' imprisonment which I imposed on the manslaughter
verdict.
28th August, 1974.
(M. Morley-John, J.)