Lord Goddard C discussed the ability of the criminal court of appeal to set aside a conviction in exceptional cases where the verdict was ‘one which no reasonable tribunal could have found.’ He said: ‘[T]he fact that some members or all the members of [this] court think that they themselves would have returned a different verdict is . . no ground for refusing to accept the verdict of the jury, which is the constitutional method of trial in this country. If there is evidence to go to the jury, and there has been no misdirection, and it cannot be said that the verdict is one which a reasonable jury could not arrive at, this court will not set aside the verdict of guilty which has been found by the jury.’
Judges:
Lord Goddard C
Citations:
(1949) 34 Cr App R 47
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Attorney General for Jersey v O’Brien (Jersey) PC 14-Feb-2006
(Court of Appeal of Jersey) The appellant had been convicted of laundering the proceeds of her husband’s drug trafficking. The Attorney-General now appealed against her successful appeal on sentence and confiscation order. Both she and her husband . .
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Criminal Practice
Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.279058
