CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932 — Page 18

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I suggest that they must have entered the Library

(the retiring room) with bluired and confused minds as to

X.

how they should apply the judgment.

judge rightly directed the jury on my

on the other points.

I think that the trial

8th point, but not

I now propose to go through the mumming-uy.

The trial judge doubted the wisdom of the course

which he adopted.

Kap.C.J: I did not doubt the wisdom of thecourse, and I

do not now doubt it. I say this to avoid mis understanding.

It should, I think, be pointed out that the sun ing-up

followed immediat ly xt on the sum ing-up for the defence,

and that the defence had avowedly attached great importance

to the last word.

Jenkin: It is impossible to say that if this evidence

b'd been excluded the jury must have come to the same

conclusion.

A. v. Baguley.

v. Renton.

R. v. Fox.

A. v. Hall,

& admitted

Sheldon:

I dispute from the beginning that this was a difficult

or complicated case, though it was long.

In the appeal no great principle is involved and no

great decision has to be taken. Such evidence has frequently

X. been omitted.

I wish to put a concrete frat: Evidence of different

crimes with one end in view, that end being the crime with

which the Frisoner is charged, is always admiɛsible.

For

example, "A" com:its a burglary and steals a pistol: he

commits a second burglary: the pistol is found at his house,