Scottish criminal law is unique in having three possible verdicts for a criminal trial: "guilty", "not guilty" and "not proven". Both "not guilty" and "not proven" result in an acquittal. The 'not proven' verdict in modern Scots criminal law can be described as an historical accident. Historically, there were no set forms for verdicts used by early juries, and their role was simply to find the guilt or innocence of the accused. The role of the jury changed when it became customary in the Justice Court to compose lengthy indictments, where facts were listed which culminated in a statement of the punishable character
Not Guilty (song) and remixed by Geoff Emerick in 1984 for the aborted "Sessions" album. It was leaked to the "Ultra Rare Trax" Volume 3 bootleg in the late 1980s, and eventually released officially in October 1996 on "Anthology 3". Author and critic Richie Unterberger describes the "Anthology 3" version of "Not Guilty" as a "bastardization" due to the editing out of a mid-song guitar solo and other features from the 1968 stereo mix. He adds that this treatment is "more roundly castigated than almost any other of the "Anthology" reconstructions". Beatles author John Winn also criticises Emerick's work, describing it as a