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even if he picked it up the night before, you have to
decide if picking it up the night before means that he
planned to go and commit a crime or because he intended
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next day to cut the brooms. You have got to decide.
The
Moreover, the Defence asks you where is the intention
to do criminal act because I have a piece of string.
string no doubt is to tie the broom. If I was leaving home
to do something, would I leave with that little piece of
string? Wouldn't I look for something more formidable?
Nevertheless, Members of the Jury, that little piece of
string was rather effective.
could have been effective.
you to decide.
But did he know that that
These are the problems for
Now it so happens that as fate would have it,
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Etheleen Thomas having had a conversation with her sister 15
Muriel Hamm on the telephone which lasted somewhere around
between 8.30 a.m. and 9.30 a.m., she puts it at 8.35 a.m.
actually goes down to the mother's place, and as she enters
the door, she sees a couple drops of blood, they were fresh,
then she hears a groaning inside and when she look in
the kitchen she sees her mother sitting on the floor. Her
mother is covered in blood, it startles her, she rushes
back outside, makes an alarm, Lynden Smith and others
come to the scene. She goes back and helps her mother, at
that time there is this bit of string tied through her
mouth at the back of the neck, and the witness says that
her tongue was hanging out.
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Perhaps at this stage. Members of the Jury, you can
just as well take a picture as given by Dr. Smith as to what
the deceased looked like when he saw her later that
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