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blurred feeling that in some way they show the accus ed
was filled with murderous hate, and was taking steps
to try and get Zimmern and Christie to murder Fung.
That is not enough. You must be satisfied that the
accused made a definite statement attributed to him
by the evidence as to the $10,000 offer; also the
statement that the two other men had failed, and so on/
Now, as I say, I am not going to analyse that
evidence and point out its difficulties and improbabili-
ties and inconsistencies again. It is for you to say
whether, în view of these difficulties and improbabili-
ties and inconsistencies you can say you are satisfied
beyond reasonable doubt that the accused made those
certain, definite statements attributed to him. If
you are satisfied on that point, and if you are also
satisfied on the evidence of Chui, that Lau wad the
man who organised the murder, and that he did so as
agent for somebody else, then you must ask yourself
whether you can take the third distinct, final step of
saying those two things bring home the charge to the
accused.
The position in that case, on the assumption
that you believe both groups of evidence, would be
this: you have evidence that Lau, the accused's own
chauffeur, was the man who organised the crime, and
that he had some principal behind him. You have,
same
again, on the assumption of belief, in both branches
of evidence from the other eide on the Zimmern end
Christie side that the accused
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was, about the same
time, filled with murderous hate against the deceased,
and was actually trying to get him murdered by some
other men