Judge Quartus de Wet soon threw out the prosecution's case for insufficient evidence, but Yutar reformulated the charges, presenting his new case from December 1963 until February 1964, calling 173 witnesses and bringing thousands of documents and photographs to the trial.
垮图斯·德维特（Quartus de Wet）法官不久后指出证据不足拒绝立案，但育塔重新提交控诉，从12月至1964年2月作了为期数月的陈述案件，传唤了173名证人，并向法庭呈上了成千上万份文件和照片。