Lord du Parcq.-

After hearing the arguments of counsel for the appellant and for the Crown, their Lordships announced that they would humbly advise His Majesty that this appeal should be allowed and the conviction of the appellant quashed, and would state their reasons for tendering this advice at a later date. Those reasons are set out in this judgment.

[2] The appellant was tried before the Supreme Court of British Guiana on a charge of murdering a woman commonly known, and referred to during the trial, as Ayesha. The jury found him guilty, and be was sentenced to death. Evidence was admitted at the trial to which objection was taken by the appellant's counsel on the ground that it tended to show that the appellant had murdered another woman, his wife, Gooriah. It, was said on behalf of the appellant that the evidence ought to be excluded as being prejudicial to him and irrelevant. For the Crown it was contended, on grounds which it will be necessary to state later in this judgment, that the circumstances attending the two deaths made evidence concerning the earlier of them relevant to the charge. It was properly conceded at their Lordships Board on behalf of the Crown that, if the