Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

1054.   Presumption from entries of receipt of money by public officer or clerk or servant

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    (1)   At the trial of a person charged with stealing, while employed in the public service, money which was the property of Her Majesty, or which came into the possession of the person by virtue of his or her employment, or charged with stealing, while a clerk or servant, money which was the property of his or her employer, or which came into his or her possession on account of his or her employer, an entry in any book of account kept by the accused person, or kept in, under or subject to his or her charge or supervision, purporting to be an entry of the receipt of any money, is evidence that the money so purporting to have been received was so received by him or her.

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    (2)   At the trial of the person charged with an offence referred to in subsection (1), it is not necessary to prove the stealing by the accused person of any specific sum of money, if, on examination of the books of account or entries kept or made by him or her, or kept or made, under, or subject to his or her charge or supervision, or by any other evidence, there is proof of a general deficiency, and if the jury are, or in a trial without jury the Court is, satisfied that the accused stole the deficient money or any part of it.