The defendant appealed against his conviction for assault, complaining of the judge’s direction which did not require them to conclude that the defendant’s acts had caused the injury suffered.
Held: The appeal failed: ‘ the Judge was right to tell the jury that it was their duty to convict if they accepted the evidence of the girl, and there was no misdirection involved in his telling them just that.’
Stephenson LJ, Thompson, Bridge JJ
[1971] EWCA Crim 4, (1972) 56 Cr App R 95, (1971) 115 SJ 809
Bailii
England and Wales
Crime
Updated: 28 December 2021; Ref: scu.249925