Before its abolition in 1970, there were jury trials conducted to hear capital cases in Singapore since the British colonial rule of Singapore. Normally, a seven-men jury was set to hear the case together with a single judge, with the jurors being randomly selected from members of the public to hear the cases. After hearing the case, the judges would sum up the case and the arguments from the defence and the prosecution on behalf of the jurors to allow them to consider before they reached on their final verdict. The jury would take some time to consider if a person is guilty as charged or guilty of a lesser charge or not guilty before they released their final verdict based on the majority or unanimous decision. Based on the final verdict, if a person is found guilty, the judge would convict and impose a penalty to the defendant in accordance to the charge he/she was found guilty of; otherwise, the judge would discharge and acquit the defendant if the jury returned with a verdict of "not guilty". One notable case where a person was sentenced to death in a jury trial was the trial of Prix driver and part-time law student Sunny Ang Soo Suan, who allegedly killed his girlfriend Jenny Cheok Cheng Kid during a scuba diving trip in 1963. Despite the circumstantial evidence and the absence of Cheok's body, the seven-men jury unanimously found Ang guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. Sunny Ang was eventually hanged on 6 February 1967 after he lost all his appeals to both the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council, and the failure of his clemency plea to President Yusof Ishak.