On the other hand, the mere fact that the evidence adduced tends to show the commission of other crimes does not render it inadmissible if it be relevant to an issue before the jury, and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the... The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900 - Page 534by New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1893Full view - About this book
| Courts - 1916 - 1326 pages
...does not " render it inadmissible if it be relevant to an issue before " the jury ; and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the " question whether the...defence which would otherwise be open to the " accused." The whole bearing of that case turns on whether the evidence of other assaults would rebut a defence... | |
| Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1895 - 934 pages
...crimes does not render it inadmissible if it be relevant to an issue before the jury, and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the...defence which would otherwise be open to the accused. The statement of these general principles is easy, but it is obvious that it may often be very difficult... | |
| Sir William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep - Criminal law - 1896 - 916 pages
...crimes does not render it inadmissible if it be relevant to an issue before the jury, and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the...defence which would otherwise be open to the accused.' (#) Thus upon an indictment for uttering a forged bank note, knowing it to be forged, evidence may... | |
| Law - 1898 - 296 pages
...include evidence tending to prove the commission of another crime, is relevant to prove the issue, viz., whether the acts alleged to constitute the crime charged...indictment were designed or accidental, or to rebut evidence which otherwise might be given that the act was accidental and not designed. If relevant for... | |
| Courtney Stanhope Kenny - Criminal law - 1901 - 574 pages
...crimes does not render it inadmissible if it be relevant to an issue before the jury ; and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the...defence which would otherwise be open to the accused. The statement of these general principles is easy, but it is obvious that it may often be very difficult... | |
| Judges - 1904 - 402 pages
...crimes does not render it inadmissible if it be relevant to an issue before the jury, and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the...defence which would otherwise be open to the accused." In Reg. v. Rhodes 5 Lord Russell, CJ, treated it as being quite clear that evidence of this kind was... | |
| Edmund Powell, John Cutler - Evidence (Law) - 1904 - 698 pages
...crimes does not render it inadmissible if it be relevant to an issue before the jury, and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the...defence which would otherwise be open to the accused." Where a prisoner was tried for obtaining a cheque from B. by false pretences by means of a cheque which... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1062 pages
...crimes does not render It Inadmissible If It be relevant to an Issue before the jury, and It may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the...Indictment were designed, or accidental, or to rebut a defense which would otherwise be open j to the accused. The statement of these general ! principles... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1070 pages
...an Issue before the Jury, and It may be so relevant If It bears upon the question whether the acta alleged to constitute the crime charged In the Indictment were designed, or accidental, or to rebut a defense which would otherwise be open to the accused. The statement of these general principles is... | |
| William Fuller Alves Boys - Coroners - 1905 - 618 pages
...crimes does not render it inadmissible if it is relevant to an issue before the jury, and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the...defence which would otherwise be open to the accused. And upon an indictment for the murder of A. by poison, and there was evidence that three others in... | |
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