Read the full judgment text of CACC 000117/2003 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 10 November 2003.
1. At the commencement of the summing up, Jackson J gave the jury a most helpful summary of the evidence and the issues in the trial of the Applicant on a charge of murder. This included an account as to how, shortly after the killing on 8 December 2001, the matter had been brought to the attention of the police by the Applicant when he went to Sham Shui Po Police Station to confess to the first police officer he found there that he had killed a woman (the deceased) with an axe. He went on to sa