South Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 25

25—Alternative verdicts

If —

            (a)         a jury is not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that a charge of an offence against this Division has been established; but

            (b)         the Judge has instructed the jury that it is open to the jury on the evidence to find the defendant guilty of a specified lesser offence or any 1 of a number of specified lesser offences; and

            (c)         the jury is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the specified lesser offence, or a particular 1 of the specified lesser offences, has been established,

the jury may return a verdict that the defendant is not guilty of the offence charged but is guilty of the lesser offence.