Tepaki and Another v Police - [1967] NZLR 337

Dependencies and mandated territories — Cook Islands — Appeal — Trial by Judge and six assessors — Appeal against conviction — Irregularities during trial alleged — Only evidence uncorroborated statement of accomplice — Verdict of assessors concurred in by Chief Judge against weight of evidence — Substantial miscarriage of justice — Conviction quashed — Whether new trial should be ordered — Costs — Cook Islands Act 1915, ss. 157, 163, 167

Evidence — Uncorroborated statement of accomplice — Accomplice a confessed liar — No other evidence — Conviction against the weight of evidence — Conviction quashed — Whether there should be a new trial.