Setelah tidak berpuas hati dengan keputusan tersebut pihak perayu telah mengemukakan pula rayuan ke Mahkamah Rayuan atas sabitan dan hukuman setelah mendapatkan kebenaran daripada Mahkamah Rayuan untuk berbuat demikian. Pihak pendakwaan pula tidak lagi merayu terhadap keputusan menolak rayuan terhadap hukuman. Kes Pembelaan [7] Dengan adanya keputusan Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi 2 Kota Bharu berkenaan peringkat akhir kes pendakwaan yang telah memanggil perayu untuk membela diri bagi pertuduhan yang dihadapi, maka dapatan Mahkamah Tinggi ini tidak lagi tertumpu kepada pembuktian kes secara prima facie oleh pihak pendakwaan kerana suatu Mahkamah yang mempunyai “concurrent jurisdiction” tidak boleh mengenepikan keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi 2 tersebut. Ini jelas dinyatakan melalui keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan di dalam nas Azmi Osman v PP & Anor Appeal [2015] 9 CLJ 845 yang menyatakan: “With respect, we are of the view that the learned HCJ2 had erred when he disturbed the findings of the earlier HCJ1 who had ordered the accused to enter his defence to all the four charges, on appeal. The dominant issue that ought to guide the HCJ2’s mind in dealing with a situation that has now become this preliminary issue must of necessity be the fact that when the HCJ1 made that 5 decision for the defence to be called, the latter was carrying out his appellate jurisdiction. Granted that the High Court jurisdiction is coordinate among its judges, inherent in that concept is the fact that a High Court Judge cannot overrule another High Court Judge who had made a decision at some crucial stage of proceedings in the same case. In the context of this appeal before us, the HCJ1 had ordered the accused’s defence to be called to answer to the four charges levelled against him. The jurisdiction to correct that purported error, said by the HCJ2 as having been committed by the HCJ1, lies with the Court of Appeal, should there be an appeal against the decision of the HCJ2. In other words, as much as the High Court Judge’s decision does not bind his brother or sister judge on the High Court bench, by the same token, neither does it lie with his brother or sister judge of the High Court to overturn his decision in the same case. In a situation now prevailing, the role of the HCJ2 is only limited to see whether the defence evidence as led has succeeded in creating a reasonable doubt in the prima facie case as found by the HCJ1 on appeal by the prosecution. With respect, this must be the preferred position as to what the proper approach ought to be, as was employed by the Court of Appeal in Sulaiman’s case (supra). Coordinate jurisdiction connotes parity and as such, it does not admit nor permit mutual overriding or overruling each other’s decision. Only a higher appeal court can disturb or vary or affirm a High Court’s decision.” (emphasis added)