The Weekly Law Reports
[1966] 3 WLR 986
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
SALIM RAKAR APPELLANT AND THE QUEEN RESPONDENT
ON APPEAL FROM THE SIERRA LEONE COURT OF APPEAL
1966 June 8,
9,
30
LORD MORRIS OF BORTH-Y-GEST, LORD PEARCE and LORD WILBERFORCE.
Crime
— Summing-up
— Circumstances calculated to arouse suspicion
— Limited evidence against one of three defendants
— Necessity for warning to jury
— Reference to be made to defendant's denials.
Sierra Leone
— Crime
— Majority verdict
— Finding of guilty by two-thirds majority of jury accepted by Court
— Misdirection in summing-up
— Effect of acceptance of verdict on appeal
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Jurors and Assessors Ordinance, Laws of Sierra Leone, 1960, rev., cap. 38, s. 27
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Courts (Appeals) Ordinance, 1960, s. 20 (1), proviso.