R. v. Hogg, 2014 SCC 18, [2014] 1 SCR 344

  

 

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA

 

Citation: R. v. Hogg, 2014 SCC 18, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 344

Date: 20140221 Docket: 35504

 

Between:

Her Majesty The Queen

Appellant

and

Jeffery Lea Hogg

Respondent

 

 

Coram: McLachlin C.J. and Cromwell, Moldaver, Karakatsanis and Wagner JJ.

 

Reasons for Judgment: (para. 1)

McLachlin C.J. (Cromwell, Moldaver, Karakatsanis and Wagner JJ. concurring)

 

 

R. v. Hogg, 2014 SCC 18, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 344

 

 

 

Her Majesty The Queen                                                                                 Appellant

v.

Jeffery Lea Hogg                                                                                         Respondent

 

Indexed as:  R. v. Hogg

 

 

 

2014 SCC 18

 

 

 

File No.:  35504.

 

 

 

2014:  February 21.

 

 

 

Present:  McLachlin C.J. and Cromwell, Moldaver, Karakatsanis and Wagner JJ.

 

 

 

on appeal from the court of appeal for prince edward island

 

                    Criminal law — Evidence — Assessment — Burden of proof — Evidence at trial consisting almost exclusively of diametrically opposed testimony of accused and complainant — Trial judge finding accused not credible and rejecting all his evidence — Accused convicted — Majority of Court of Appeal erred in holding that conviction based on faulty application of burden of proof — Conviction restored.

 

                    APPEAL from a judgment of the Prince Edward Island Court of Appeal (Jenkins C.J. and McQuaid and Murphy JJ.A.), 2013 PECA 11, 339 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 127, 300 C.C.C. (3d) 435, 2013 CarswellPEI 30, [2013] P.E.I.J. No. 21 (QL), setting aside the conviction for sexual assault entered by Taylor J., 2012 PESC 30, 2012 CarswellPEI 51, [2012] P.E.I.J. No. 57 (QL), and ordering a new trial. Appeal allowed.

 

                    Gerald K. Quinn, Q.C., and Henry S. Brown, Q.C., for the appellant.

 

                    Mitchell T. MacLeod and Jonathan Melo, for the respondent.

 

                    The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by

[1]                              The Chief Justice — We agree with the conclusion reached by McQuaid J.A., dissenting in the Court of Appeal, that the trial judge did not err in his application of the burden of proof, and there was therefore no basis for appellate intervention.  The appeal is allowed and the conviction restored.

                    Judgment accordingly.

 

                    Solicitor for the appellant:  Attorney General of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown.

 

                    Solicitors for the respondent:  MacLeod Law Office, Charlottetown.