JUDGMENT
SUMMING – UP NOTES
Gentlemen and the ladies of the jury;
We have come to the end of the evidence and addresses by counsel.
It is now my duty to sum-up to you by drawing your attention to the evidence. The law involved and its application to the evidence you have so far heard. I remind you of your charge and duties explained to you earlier on.
As judges of fact, you should consider yourselves free from the comments or observations if any made by me in the course of this summing up, in that you are not bound by them though I am within my right to make such observation. Your verdict must be based upon your own consideration of the evidence heard in this court and direction given on the law involved. You are therefore to disregard whatever you might have heard outside. Your verdict also must be by majority, this being a rape trial.
The general accepted principle of law in criminal trial is that the prosecution must discharge the burden of proving the Accused guilty of the charge to you…