R v Bonner
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1835 |
| Date | 01 January 1835 |
| Court | High Court |
English Reports Citation: 172 E.R. 1288
IN THE COURTS OF KING'S BENCH, COMMON PLEAS AND EXCHEQUER
Referred to, R v Perkins, 1840, 2 Mood C C 135
[386] Hereford Assizes (Crown Side), before Mr. Justice Patteson rex v. bonner. (In order to render a declaration in arttculo mortis admissible in a case of manslaughter, it is not necessary to prove expressions of the deceased that he was in apprehension of almost immediate death ; but the Judge will consider fropa all the circumstances, whether the deceased had or had not any hope of recovery.) [Referred to, R v Perkins, 1840, 2 Mood C C 135 ] Manslaughter -The facts proved were very barely sufficient to raise an inference that the prisoner, being the coachman to the mail coach between Hereford and Shrewsbury, had struck with his whip the horse drawing a light-covered cart, in which the deceased was proceeding at night, along the road between Leo minster and Ludlow, unless the dying declarations of the deceased, John Beaveu, made on Wednesday, tie 14th of August, could be admitted in evidence, to prove the circtmstsnces under which his cart was overturned, and himself severely injured- Godson, for the prosecution, called a person who saw the deceased immediately after the accident, which happened about two o'clock in the morning of Sunday, the llth of August, 1833 ; and he described the state in which the deceased was lound after tke accident, and the carrying of him to a, house at Bnmfield. The surgeon stated that he attended the deceased on Sunday, the llth, when he found kim with six ribs broken, and other injuries; that he informed the deceased that he could not expect to recover. That Beaven replied, that he was a,vare he must go out of the world unless he was relieved by medicine ; that he was better on Monday, fcut passed a very bad night on Tuesday , and that on the Wednesday he was very ill, and said he was satisfied that he must go out of the world. A clergyman (Mr Pinhorn), also stated, that the deceased told him on the Wednesday [387] that he did frot expect to live. A brother, and a son-in-law of the deceased, also stated that they were sent for by the deceased, and saw him on the Wednesday, when he expressed his great anxiety to settle his worldly affairs, as he had not long to live. He died on the following Saturday. C. Phiibp^, and Busby, for the prisoner, submitted that the fact...
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