What is the test for pleading guilty to a charge of sexual assault?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Mays v Degerness, 1929 CanLII 233 (SK QB):
To succeed on such a plea the defendant must prove the commission of the offence charged as strictly as if the plaintiff was being tried on an indictment for it: i.e., beyond a reasonable doubt. See Meier v. Klotz, 1928 CanLII 289 (SK CA), [1928] 4 D.L.R. 4, at pp. 10-11, 22 S.L.R. 385.
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