Brian Wilson Iain Alexander McDonald Murray Appellants Against HM Advocate

JurisdictionScotland
Neutral Citation1987 SCCR 217
Date1987
Year1987
CourtUnspecified Court (Scotland)
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5 cases
  • Craig Mccreight V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 1 April 2009
    ...the knowledge of the details of the crime disclosed in the confession was that the appellant was the perpetrator: Wilson v HM Advocate 1987 SCCR 217, per Lord Justice-General Emslie at p. 222. It was therefore necessary for the Crown to lead separate evidence about each of the details relie......
  • Frank Docherty+brendan Christopher Dixon V. Her Majesty's Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 26 March 2010
    ...may provide a strand of circumstantial evidence which the jury would be entitled to take into account: Wilson and Murray v HM Advocate 1987 SCCR 217; 2009 SCL 1047; MacDonald v HM Advocate 1987 SCCR 581; Moran v HM Advocate 1990 SCCR 40. The existence of gossip and rumour is a further facto......
  • Smith v Lees
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 28 January 1997
    ...1994 JC 28 Susanna and the Elders (Old Testament: Book of Daniel 13 1–62) Williamson v. WitherUNK 1981 SCCR 214 Wilson v. HM AdvocateUNK 1987 SCCR 217 Textbooks etc referred to: Alison, Criminal Law, i, 244 and 247; ii, 551–552 Burnett, Criminal Law (1811), ch XX, pp 518 and 519 Hume, Comme......
  • Beattie v Hm Advocate
    • United Kingdom
    • High Court of Justiciary
    • 2 December 1994
    ...1994 JC 132 Manuel v HM AdvocateSC 1958 JC 41 Meredith v LeesSC 1992 JC 127 Slater v HM Advocate 1928 JC 94 Wilson v HM AdvocateUNK 1987 SCCR 217 Textbooks referred to: Hume on Crimes (3rd edn) ii, 465 Renton and Brown, Criminal Procedure (4th edn) para 11–42. The cause called before the Hi......
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  • ‘Substantial and Radical Change’: A New Dawn for Scottish Criminal Procedure?
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 75-5, September 2012
    • 1 September 2012
    ...see n 34 above.151 Smith vLees n 145 above.See M. Redmayne,‘Cor roboration and Sexual Offences’ 2006 JR 309.152 Wilson vHM Advocate 1987 SCCR 217, 222 per Lord Justice-General Emslie.153 Report para 1.0.7.154 See ibid para 7.2.50, where it is asserted that there is‘little doubt’ that this i......

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