DPP v O'Brien
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1969 |
| Date | 01 January 1969 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
Identification of accused - Witness acquainted with the accused prior to date of alleged crime - Judge's charge -Necessity for warning the jury - Caution to be exercised in accepting visual identification -Failure to give such warning - Conviction -Appeal - New trial.
The accused was tried by a judge and jury on certain charges of burglary and larceny in and from a dwelling belonging to one Mary Grimes on 31st August, 1968. In the course of the trial a member of the Garda Siochana gave evidence that he had known the accused by appearance for some years prior to the 31st August, 1968. On the morning of that day at approximately 5.25 a.m. the guard observed a man leaving the dwelling the property of Mary Grimes through a window. The guard deposed that he recognised that man as the accused. Other evidence was adduced at the trial which could have justified the jury in convicting the accused. The accused was convicted by the jury. The accused appealed against the conviction on the ground inter aliathat the trial was unsatisfactory in that the trial judge omitted...
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