Sections 161 and 162(1) Criminal Code of St Vincent and the Grenadines (adopted from s.3 Homicide Act 1957) should not be given a literal and free-standing construction to impose limits on the material which the jury must take into account in deciding what had provoked an act of murder as contained in s.162(2). * The Privy Counsel gave further leave to appeal against a decision of St Vincent and the Grenadines Court of Appeal for not allowing medical evidence, the subject of the instant Privy Council decision, to be adduced at the remitted appeal.

PC (Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hutton, Lord Hobhouse)

16/07/1999