The State v Mayers

JurisdictionGuyana
Date1981
Year1981
CourtCourt of Appeal (Guyana)

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5 cases
  • Walker v The Queen
    • Grenada
    • Court of Appeal (Grenada)
    • 26 October 1984
    ...was that while in The State v. Robert Lewis (1975) 23 W.I.R. 226, the Guyana Court of Appeal rejected a similar ground of appeal, in The State v. Mayers (1981) 30 W.I.R., 189, they upheld it. In each case a reasonable jury might have thought the omission of importance. But while in Lewis a ......
  • The State v Guy Ramrekha
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 22 April 2024
    ...and decide whether it affected the weight of the identification evidence at the trial. 16 The trial judge had failed to do so. 32 In The State v Mayers 17 the 11-year-old victim was accosted and assaulted by a man whom she described to the police as a negro man with an afro hairstyle and we......
  • Thomas (Lennox) v The State
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • Invalid date
  • Douglas v The State
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 11 April 1986
    ...to say what directions the judge gave to the jury. No doubt these will receive the fullest scrutiny when the appeal comes to be argued. The State v. Myers [ (1981) 30 W.I.R. 189], another case cited by counsel for the appellant, does not assist the appellant in this regard, for there the a......
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