The Queensland Court of Appeal held that the trial judge's direction on accident under s 23 of the Criminal Code, consistent with R v Taiters, was not a misdirection and was not inconsistent with R v Van den Bemd. An initially ambiguous direction on self-defence regarding the accused's necessary state of mind was corrected immediately by the trial judge and did not constitute a misdirection warranting a new trial. The Court also upheld the admissibility of a false statement made by the appellant in a television interview and found that a sentence of two years imprisonment suspended after eight months was not manifestly excessive, notwithstanding that the complainant was the instigator and was intoxicated, and that the appellant was a professional boxer.
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