SUPREME COURT OF CANADA

Citation: R. v. Dowe, [2008] 3 S.C.R. 109, 2008 SCC 55

Date : 20081017

Docket : 32493

Between:

Michael Gordon Dowe

Appellant

and

Her Majesty The Queen

Respondent

Coram : McLachlin C.J. and Deschamps, Fish, Charron and Rothstein JJ.

Reasons for Judgment: (para. 1)

McLachlin C.J. (Deschamps, Fish, Charron and Rothstein JJ. concurring)

R. v. Dowe, [2008] 3 S.C.R. 109, 2008 SCC 55

Michael Gordon Dowe Appellant

v.

Her Majesty The Queen Respondent

Indexed as: R. v. Dowe

Neutral citation: 2008 SCC 55.

File No.: 32493.

2008: October 17.

Present: McLachlin C.J. and Deschamps, Fish, Charron and Rothstein JJ.

on appeal from the court of appeal for nova scotia

Criminal law — Evidence — Accomplices — Corroboration — Trial judge’s error concerning corroboration not affecting result — Accused’s acquittal for breaking and entering restored.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (Bateman, Cromwell and Fichaud JJ.A.) (2007), 260 N.S.R. (2d) 306, 831 A.P.R. 306, 228 C.C.C. (3d) 75, [2007] N.S.J. No. 525 (QL), 2007 CarswellNS 584, 2007 NSCA 128, setting aside the accused’s acquittal for breaking and entering and ordering a new trial. Appeal allowed.

Roger A. Burrill and Robert M. Gregan, for the appellant.

William D. Delaney, for the respondent.

The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by

[1] The Chief Justice — We are all of the view that the appeal should be allowed for the reasons given by Justice Thomas Cromwell of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.

Judgment accordingly.

Solicitor for the appellant: Nova Scotia Legal Aid, Halifax.

Solicitor for the respondent: Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service (Appeals Branch), Halifax.