ADUMUA-BOSSMAN J.S.C.: After what can be described as the most favourable summing-up in favour of the appellant, in the course of which the learned judge said, inter alia, that: “For instance, you have to consider whether a sane person in the circumstances would run amuck and butcher so many defenceless women and children; if you think not, then your verdict should be guilty, but insane”, the jury rejected the appellant’s defence of insanity or insane delusion; and it is their finding that the appellant was sane at the time of commission of the act which is now challenged as being unreasonable and incapable of support having regard to the evidence.
After the most anxious and careful examination and consideration of all the evidence, however, we are of the opinion that the jury had good and sufficient justification for coming to the conclusion which they did.
In this respect, on the appellant’s own statement to the police and his explanation to the court, he cannot be said not to have k…