Dalam menilai keputusan yang dibuat oleh Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen, Mahkamah ini telah menilai rekod Rayuan dan adalah didapati dalam memutuskan samada pihak pendakwaan telah membuktikan suatu kes Prima Facie atau sebaliknya, Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen perlulah membuat suatu penilaian secara maksima yakni memberikan segala pertimbangan yang sewajarnya keterangan saksi-saksi pendakwaan termasuk kredibiliti saksi-saksi dan hujahan oleh kedua-dua pihak pendakwaan dan pihak peguam. Beban Pembuktian oleh Pihak Pendakwaan 29. Di Akhir kes pendakwaan, adalah menjadi tugas dan Beban statutory kepada pihak pendakwaan untuk membuktikan suatu kes “Prima Facie” menurut Seksyen 180 Kanun Prosedur Jenayah dengan membuktikan kesemua elemen-elemen perundangan sebelum Perayu dipanggil untuk menjawab sebarang pertuduhan yang dikenakan terhadapnya. Suatu kes “Prima Facie” dinyatakan dan 28 diulangkan dengan tegas dalam kes: Balachandran v PP (2004) 2 MLRA 547, (2005) 2 MLJ 301, (2005) 1 CLJ 85 Mahkamah Persekutuan telah menyatakan : “ …………A prima facie case is therefore one that is succicient for the accused to called upon to answer. This in turn means that the evidence adduced must be such that it can be overthrown only by evidence in rebuttal. The phrase ‘prima facie case’ is defined in similar terms in Mozley and Whiteley’s Law Dictionary 11th Ed as : ……….A litigating party is said to have a prima facie case when the evidence in his favour is sufficiently strong for his opponent to be called on to answer it. A prima facie case, then is one which is established by sufficient evidence, and can be overthrown only by rebuting evidence adduced by the other side..........In order to make a finding either way the court must, at the close of the case for the prosecution, undertake a positive evaluation of the credibility and reliability of all the evidence adduced so as to determine whether the elements of the offence have been established. As the trial is without a jury it is only with such a positive evaluation can the court make a determination for the purpose of 29 s 180(2) and (3). Of course in a jury trial where the evaluation is hypothetical the question to be asked would be whether on the evidence as it stands the accused could (and not must) lawfully be convicted. That is so because a determination on facts is matter fo ultimate decision by the jury at the end of the trial. Since the court, in ruling that a prima facie case has been made out, must be satisfied that if it is not rebutted is must prevail. ………Thus if the accused elects to remain silent be must be convicted. The test at the close of the case for the presecution would therefore be: Is the evidence sufficient to convict the accused if he elects to remain silent? If the answer is in the affirmative then a prima facie case has been made out. This must, as of necessity, require a consideration of the existence of any reasonable doubt in the case for the prosecution. If there is any such doubt there can be no prima facie case. As the accused can be convicted on the prima facie evidence it must have reached a standard 30 which is capable of supporting a conviction beyond reasonable doubt. ……….However it must be observed that it cannot, at that stage, be properly described as a case that has been proved beyond reasonable doubt. Proof beyond reasonable doubt involves two aspects. While one is the legal burden on the prosecution to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. Bothe these burdens can only be fully discharged at the end of the whole case when the defence has closed its case. Therefore a case can be said to have been proved beyond reasonable doubt only at the conclusion of the trial upon a consideration of all the evidence adduced as provided by s 182A(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code……….” Dalam kes: Looi Kow Chai & Anor v. Public Prosecutor (2003) 1 MLJ 65 at 81, (2202) 2 MLRA 383, (2003) 1 CLJ 734 “…………..It is therefore follows that there in only once exercise that a judge sitting alone under Section 180 of the Code has to undertake at the close of Prosecution case. He, must subject the Prosecution evidence to the maximum evaluation and to ask himself the question, if 31 decide to call upon the accused to enter his defence and he elects to remain silent, am I prepared to convict him on the totality of the evidence contained in the Prosecution case? If the answer is in negative then no prima facie case has been made out and the Accused would be entitled to an acquittal”…… ………Dalam kes Public Prosecutor v. Ong Cheng Heong (1995) 2 MLRH 345, (1998) 6 MLJ 678 at 691, Mahkamah Rayuan juga menerangkan “approach” yang perlu diambil menurut Seksyen 173(f) dan 180 KPJ di akhir kes pendakwaan…..”, …….Begitu juga dalam kes Pendakwa Raya lawan Mohd Radzi bin Abu Bakar (2005) 2 MLRA 590. (2005) 6 MLJ 393, (2006) 6 CLJ 465 , yang mana Mahkamah Persekutuan juga menerima pakai ujian-ujian yang disyaratkan oleh Mahkamah Rayuan dalam kes: Looi Kow Chai…………”. Secara ringkasnya, kes di atas menyatakan dapatan seperti berikut :