Case Categories: Circumstantial evidence and 5 - EVIDENCE
R v Stewart – (1977) 2 SCR 748 (Pigeon): (at the bottom, no paragraphs):
In my view, this was made all the more serious by the trial judge considering the weight of various elements of proof taken separately. In Côté v. The King [ (1941), 77 C.C.C. 75.], Taschereau J. as he then was, said, speaking for all but one member of the Court (at p. 76): It may be, and such is often the case, that the facts proven by the Crown, examined separately have not a very strong probative value; but all the facts put in evidence have to be considered each one in relation to the whole, and it is all of them taken together, that may constitute a proper basis for a conviction.
Case Categories: Circumstantial evidence and 5 - EVIDENCE