submissions; to which I shall make specific reference as I consider needful in the course of this Judgment. I consider it pertinent, as a starting point, to re-state the fundamental principles of a criminal trial, to the effect that the prosecution could discharge the burden placed on it by the provisions of section 135 (2) and (3) of the Evidence Act, to prove the guilt of an accused defendant beyond reasonable doubt, in any of the following well established and recognized manners, namely: 1. 1. By the confessional statement of the accused defendant which requirement of the law; or 6 passes the