R v Adams
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 08 April 1993 |
| Date | 08 April 1993 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
Court of Appeal
Criminal evidence - admissibility- acquittal evidence
Evidence relating to a count in an indictment which was statute barred, and in relation to which a defendant had been acquitted, could be admitted to support evidence on other counts in the indictment, provided that the evidence was of probative value.
The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice McCowan, Mr Justice Jowitt and Mr Justice Waller) so held on March 30 when dismissing Nicholas Adams' appeal against his conviction at Swindon Crown Court (Judge McNaught and a jury) on June 14, 1991 on 11 counts of doing an act tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice.
LORD JUSTICE McCOWAN said that the question was whether the fact that one count in an indictment was statute barred meant that the evidence which supported it could not be admitted to support the evidence on other counts which were not statute barred. It was one thing to be acquitted...
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