Roberts v Rhodes

• 1. Appeal
  2. › Criminal appeal
  3. › Appeal from Magistrates Court to Supreme Court
  4. › Nature of appeal by way of rehearing
  5. › Whether error of law or fact must be established before appellate intervention
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Criminal appeal
  3. › Unsafe and unsatisfactory verdict
  4. › Whether appeal judge erred in finding factual error
  5. › Whether appeal judge erred in finding legal error rendered verdict unsafe and unsatisfactory
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Evidence
  3. › Standard of proof
  4. › Beyond reasonable doubt
  5. › Reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence
  6. › Whether formulation applicable only to circumstantial evidence cases
  7. › Whether use in direct evidence case constitutes error of law
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Witnesses
  3. › Credibility
  4. › Corroboration
  5. › Whether absence of corroboration may be used to reject witness evidence
  6. › Whether treating lack of corroboration as basis for rejection amounts to reversal of onus of proof

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