Read the full judgment text of CACC 000821/1975 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
2. With all respect to the trial judge his summing-up was not as helpful as it might have been and it is not surprising that the jury returned to ask for a further direction on the very point which went to the root of the case. Even then the judge, having answered the question put to him in a few words, went on to repeat much of what had been so confusing in his previous charge. It is, as this court has indicated on more than one occasion, rarely if ever of assistance to a jury to mention to the