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He saw her at about 9.30 a.m. Her clothing was
soaked in blood and you have seen the dress. He tells
you the string was there around the neck. PC Mac Intosh
removed that string. He tells you of the wounds. We
need not go and list them to any great extent but he
listed, if you remember, 12 wounds. But two he spoke
of as being more serious than the others. There was
the one in the temple that went in something like two
inches, and there was one in the hand. He tells you
that death in his opinion was due to acute blood loss.
Now that evidence is important, Members of the Jury,
because there is something like 12 wounds, and you will
remember that the accused who gave evidence before you
and made a statement as well recollects that there were
two wounds that he inflicted. That's all that he can
recollect and that is important, because you are going
to have to consider that when we come to consider
certain other aspects of the defence.
Members of the Jury, the deed having been done,
the accused goes back home, and we have it that he
removed these clothes and changed and he went off
towards Beef Island. But you have got to consider one
or two other things, because at that time his valise is
packed, the brown paper bag is packed, and the question
is, "When were they packed?" Members of the Jury, you
can't go guessing. But you are entitled to draw
inferences from the facts as you see them, and you will
draw those inferences as reasonable people of the world.
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the 17th to go away.
You will remember there is evidence of the
accused and his sister, that he had planned since about
That he meant to make his reserva-
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