Before the Assize Court retires, the President reads out the following instruction, which is also posted in large print in the most conspicuous place in the deliberation chamber:
“Subject to the requirement that reasons be given for the decision, the law does not require each of the judges and jurors making up the assize court to give an account of the means by which they have convinced themselves; it does not prescribe rules on which they must make the fullness and sufficiency of evidence particularly dependent ; It requires them to question themselves in silence and meditation and to seek, in the sincerity of their conscience, what impression the evidence against the accused and the means of his defence have made on their reason. The law only asks them this one question, which contains the full extent of their duties: “Do you have a deep conviction? “. “