TWUM v. THE REPUBLIC [1967] GLR  724-731

Criminal law and procedure—Jury trial—Verdict—Disagreement between judge and jury—Whether sufficient ground for appellate court to interfere with conviction by jury.

Criminal law and procedure—Admissibility of evidence—Medical reports—Post- mortem report as to cause of death admitted in evidence by trial judge without pathologist being called—Post-mortem report must be excluded as wrongly admitted into evidence—Whether exclusion of post-mortem report being the only medical evidence of cause of death, necessarily fatal to conviction for manslaughter.

