39.

In R v Olivo (supra) the trial had been wholly irregular in that three separate indictments
were tried together at the same time. The Court of Criminal Appeal was very critical of the
absence of a full shorthand note of that part of the proceedings where, according to the
record, “the jury were duly sworn and charged.” A verbatim transcript would have shown
whether the defendants really were put in the charge of the jury on three separate indictments.
The convictions were quashed.