Murder Charge in UK Law
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Connelly v DPP
... ... were capable of giving rise to two charges against the Appellant—murder and robbery. He was tried and convicted of murder, but by reason of a ... Ought he then to have been tried afresh on the charge of armed robbery? ... 2 If it were proper to be guided by the view of ... ...
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DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
... ... has to be proved before an accused person can be found guilty of murder by having aided and abetted. Save as to one matter to which I will later ... The two points are as follows: — "(1) On a charge of murder is the defence of duress open to a person who is accused as a ... ...
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Benedetto v The Queen (No 2)
... ... Court of Justice of the British Virgin Islands charged with the murder on 14 January 2000 of Lois McMillen, whose body was found the next day on ... , Spicer and George that there was no case for them to answer on the charge of murder and they were acquitted of this charge. He also ruled that the ... ...
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R v Howe; R v Bannister; R v Burke; R v Clarkson
... ... the four men of two murders (Elgar and Pollitt) and a conspiracy to murder (Redfern, an intended victim who escaped in time). The three counts ... The judge left the defence of duress to the jury on this charge of conspiracy to murder. "The grounds of appeal, which are the ... ...
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Woolmington v DPP
... ... convicted at the Bristol Assizes on the 14th February of the wilful murder of his wife on 10th December, 1934, and was sentenced to death. He ... In every charge of murder, the fact of the killing being first proved, all the ... ...
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R v Derby Magistrates' Court, ex parte B
... ... but subsequently admitted being solely responsible for the murder. On 10 April he made a statement to that effect (the first account). In it ... the factual instructions of [the appellant] in defence of the charge of murder in 1978 coming into existence prior to 8 October 1978 and to ... ...
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R v Church
... ... the appellant, having been indicted for and acquitted of the murder of Sylvia Jeannette Nott, was found guilty of manslaughter and was ... Did it make any difference, as far as the murder charge was concerned, whether or not the accused believed she was then already ... ...
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Hyam v DPP
... ... to an accused person in order to find him guilty of the crime of murder. Is it simply the intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (in the ... defence should be permitted to avail him as a valid defence to a charge of murder ... 21 The next stage in my historical summary must ... ...
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R v Coutts (Graham James)
... ... 1 The appellant, Mr Coutts, was convicted of murder on an indictment charging him with that crime alone. Evidence was adduced ... detract from a more stark choice between a conviction on a serious charge and an acquittal. But if there is evidence to support such a compromise ... ...
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Davies v DPP
... ... The Appellant had, on the 22nd October, 1953, been convicted of the murder on Clapham Common of a youth called Beckley. He appealed to the Court of ... Woodman and Allen, the Crown offered no evidence on the charge of murder, and the jury returned a formal verdict of "Not Guilty" on that ... ...
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