Read the full judgment text of DCCC 000090/1971 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment.
1. Prior to the Theft Ordinance, where the facts left open a charge of either larceny or receiving it was the practice to lay them in the alternative. The position would then arise as to whether to convict of either the tribunal of fact must be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt as to which of them the accused had committed. That is was it sufficient to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the accused had committed one or the other but as to which be only on the position of saying which the
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