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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 Mr. K. Tunidau for the State
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\par We have now arrived at the stage of the trial where I am required to sum up to\'85\'85\'85\'85
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\par During the course of the summing up, I officially give you directions on the law and you are bound to accept those directions regardless of what counsel may have told you the law to be.
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\par On matters of fact, you are free to make up your minds and reach your own conclusions.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
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\par You have heard counsel from both sides.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 Each put to you their view of the evidence and how it should be assessed.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 In so doing they were doing what they were duty bound to do and their remarks were intended to assist you.}{
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However, you are not bound by what counsel have said if you do not agree with it and similarly, if I appear to be expressing any view of the fact, you must reject such view unless you yourselves are of the same opinion.}{
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\par If I omit to mention evidence, which you think is important, you must take it into account just as if I stress evidence, which you think is unimportant, you must disregard the fact that I stressed. 
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\par In arriving at your conclusions, you must have regard only to the evidence you heard in this case.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
You must discard anything you may have heard from friends or relatives or read in the newspapers or seen on the television.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
You must ignore any advice or any suggestions made to you.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 You must
 also put aside any feelings of horror or revulsion or sympathy either for the deceased or the accused.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
You must base your opinions on your own objective analysis of the evidence.
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\par In assessing the evidence, you are at liberty to accept the whole of the witnesses evidence or accept part of it and reject another part or reject the whole.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 In deciding on credibility of any witness, you are to take into account, not only what you heard but what you saw.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{
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\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 Crim. App. No. 14 of 1990.}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652 
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 , the evidence referred to must be reliable and not simply any evidence no matter how inherently vague or unreliable it might be.
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\par Section 293(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code provides that at the end of the prosecution case, the court }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 \'93if it considers that there is no evidence that the accused \'85
 committed the offence shall \'85 record a finding of not guilty.\'94
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
\par In }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 State \endash v- Anthony Frederick Stephens}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652  }{
\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 Crim. Case No. 3 of 1997}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 , Pain J said (at page 2):
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\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin720\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 \'93
The narrow prescription of section 293(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code excludes the common law test enunciated in such cases as }{\b\i\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 Galbraith}{
\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652  (1981) 2 ALL ER 1060 that if the evidence is of such a tenuous character that a jury properly directed could not convict on it, the Judge should stop the case.
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin720\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
Accordingly, the question to be addressed at this stage of the trial is whether there is some relevant and admissible 
evidence in respect of each element that must be proved before the accused could be convicted of the offences alleged against him in the information.\'94
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid5465652 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
\par That was the position accepted by the Court of Appeal in }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 Sisa Kalisoqo}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652  and }{
\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 Mosese Tuisawau}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652  and that is the test applied by Shameem J. in }{
\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 State \endash v- Waisale Tuivuya}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10752860  HAC0}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 015 of 2002S }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 and is the test to be applied in this case.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652 
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 The Information reads as follows:
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\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\b\i\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 Statement of Offence
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin720\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\b\i\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 MURDER:}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{
\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 Contrary to sections 199 and 200 of the Penal Code, Cap. 17.
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 
\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\b\i\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 Particulars of Offence
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin720\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 PETER JOHN RAM NARAYAN s/o John Narayan between the 13}{
\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\super\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 th}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652  day of February 2004 and the 19}{
\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\super\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 th}{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652  day of February 2004 at Namoli Avenue, Lautoka in the Western Division murdered SAINIMILI VAKANIBAU.}{
\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652\charrsid10752860 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid5465652 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 The ingredients of the offence of murder are fi
rstly that the accused did an unlawful act.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
Secondly, that that act caused the death of the deceased and thirdly that the accused did the act with malice aforethought.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
In this case the evidence is that Sainimili Cokanibau died after having been assaulted by the accused.
\par 
\par The first two elements are present but what of the third element, malice aforethought.
\par 
\par The pathologist, Dr. Gupta, her evidence is that the deceased died of asphyxia due to suffocation.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
Her evidence is that the injuries inflicted on the deceased by the accused with the iron bar did not cause the death of the deceased.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 She says there was no blood inside the trachea and therefore the asphyxiation was not directly due to blood emanating from breaking the nose and associated injuries occasioned
 by the assault with the iron bar.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652 
\par 
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
The accused in his record of interview, Exhibit 1, says at Questions 156 to 158 that he pushed a bed sheet against the deceased mouth for about 5 minutes and she was bleeding heavily and to stop the blood going on the floor.
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\par Counsel for the accused submits that there was no malice aforethought and that the deceased attacked the accused first that there is therefore provocation on the part of the deceased, reducing the offence to manslaughter.}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 There is evidence that may e
nable the conclusion that the accused was provoked both immediately prior to the assault with the iron bar and prior thereto.
\par 
\par }\pard\plain \s19\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid5465652 \b\f58\fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\f0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
Was the assault with the iron bar and the pressing of a bed sheet onto the mouth, one act following the provocation or was the bed sheet incident, a separate act with no provocation?
\par }\pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid5465652 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
\par In }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 Regina v Le Brun}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652  [1992] 1 Q.B. 61}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
 Lord Lane CJ, delivering the judgment of the court at page 68 said:
\par 
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin720\itap0\pararsid5465652 {\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 \'93
It seems to us that where the unlawful application of force and the eventual act causing death
 are parts of the same sequence of events, the same transaction, the fact that there is an appreciable interval of time between the two does not serve to exonerate the defendant from liability.}{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{
\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 That is certainly so where the appellant\rquote s subsequent actions 
which caused death, after the initial unlawful blow, a designed to conceal his commission of the original unlawful assault.}{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652\charrsid10752860 
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri720\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin720\lin720\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 It would be possible to express the problem as one of causation.}{
\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652\charrsid10752860  }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 The original unlawful blow to the chin was a causa sine qua non of the later actus reus.}{
\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652\charrsid10752860  }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 
It was the opening event in a series which was to culminate in death: the first link in the chain of causation, to use another metaphor.}{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652\charrsid10752860  }{
\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 It cannot be said that the actions of the appellant in dragging the victim away with the intention of evading liability broke the chain which linked the initial blow with the death.
\'94
\par }\pard\plain \s16\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 \f2\fs24\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\f0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 
\par The circumstances of that case were that the accused had assaulted the deceased.}{\f0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652\charrsid10752860  }{\f0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 
She became unconscious, he then sought to move her inside the house.}{\f0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652\charrsid10752860  }{\f0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 In doing so, her h
ead hit the ground breaking her skull resulting in death.
\par }\pard \s16\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid5465652 {\f0\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
\par Counsel for the State submits that the accused is indifference to the deceased in not calling for help when she was bleeding heavily amounts to malice.
\par }\pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid5465652 \fs20\lang1033\langfe1033\cgrid\langnp1033\langfenp1033 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
\par The record of interview records the accused saying that he realized she was dead and he was scared (Question 75).
\par 
\par I am of the opinion that ultimately, it is a question of whether the accused was provoked as defined in section 204 of the Penal Code to invoke the operation of section 203 of the Code to reduce the charge to manslaughter.}{
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 There is, in my opinion, some relevant and admissible evidence in respect of each element that must be proved.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 This is not a very high standard.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
These are issues to be properly considered by the assessors in all the circumstances of the case.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid5465652 
I find therefore, that there is sufficient evidence to put the accused to his defence.
\par 
\par There is a case to answer.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652 
\par 
\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 JOHN CONNORS
\par }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 JUDGE}{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652\charrsid10752860 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid10752860 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5465652\charrsid10752860 
\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 At Lautoka
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid5465652 {\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid1984333\charrsid10752860 24 August 2004
\par }}