Mahkamah Persekutuan dalam kes Md Zainudin bin Raujan v Public Prosecutor [2013] 3 MLJ 773 telah memutuskan: “At the conclusion of the trial, s 182A of the Criminal Procedure Code imposes a duty on the trial court to consider all the evidence adduced before it and to decide whether the prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. The defence of the accused must be considered in the totality of the evidence adduced by the prosecution, as well as in the light of the well established principles enunciated in Mat v Public Prosecutor [1963] 1 MLJ 263 with regard to the approach to be taken in evaluating the evidence of the defence. In Mohamed Yatin Bin Abu Bakar v Public Prosecutor [1950] MLJ 57 Spenser-Wilkinson J, at p 59, opined: In an ordinary case, where no special burden of proof or explanation is by law cast upon the accused, his position is more favourable than it is in those cases where the law presumes something against him. The principle laid down in the recent English cases, particularly Mancini v Director of Public Prosecutions appears to me to be that, where no special onus is cast by law upon the accused, then, if his story has the effect of raising a reasonable doubt as to the truth of the prosecution case, he is entitled to an acquittal; and this is the 'ordinary rule' which is referred to in the passage above quoted from Rex v Garth. In this country, at the close of the case for the prosecution the Court will not call upon the accused for his defence unless the evidence of the prosecution witnesses is, in the first instance, believed. If, when called upon for his defence the accused gives evidence, then the question is, not which story is to be believed, but whether, even if the Court is not inclined to accept all that the accused has said, his evidence does not raise a reasonable doubt as to the truth of the prosecution evidence or as to the accused's guilt.”. [penekanan ditambah]