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being accused all along by this lady over the whole week
of stealing the money building up a hatred and revenge,
so much so that he planned that morning to go down and
finish her off? Or is it that he was annoyed but kept
himself under control, and it was only when he went to
the room that morning, to get a stout and she again put
the thing to him, that he got off suddenly?
It is only
his evidence to say what happened down in the grocery
and in the pool room. There is no one else who can tell
you what happened down there, because no one else was
present. So he tells you that she told him these things.
Well as I said, such has been the nature of his evidence
you might find that he has been all along basically a
truthful witness. Even in this trying of moment he has
been a truthful witness, you might think. But the Crown
will want you to say that it is only a made up story, that
he planned this thing all along, all through the week,
that he was building it up and so he planned it and
that's why he got the knife before, and why he had the
cord, and why he packed his clothes, and that's how he
had everything in preparation. That's why he told his
sister he is going to leave because of immigration, he
planned it. But he says no. I heard her accuse me
several times and I was annoyed, I didn't lose my control,
but it happened when I got down there when she told me this
thing again, that was the last straw, and it just burst
and I lost my control. That's his story.
So you have to decide because in every case the
Crown has to prove its case to your satisfaction and he
hasn't got to prove that he was provoked, he has raised it
as a defence and there is sufficient evidence for you
to consider it. But I have told you all this because if
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