R v Croft
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Criminal Appeal |
| Year | 1944 |
| Date | 1944 |
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14 cases
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R v Becerra
...to adopt it in its entirety as a correct statement of the law which is to be applied in this case. 25 The last case, an English one, is Rex v. Croft, a well known case of a suicide pact, 1944 1 King's Bench 295, where, under the old law, the survivor of a suicide pact was charged with and c......
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R (Purdy) v DPP
...degree, and this applied equally where that person was the survivor of a suicide pact - Rex v Dyson (1823) Russ. & Ry 523; R v Croft [1944] KB 295. 6 A person who encouraged or assisted another to commit suicide but who was not present when the suicide was committed was, in theory, an acce......
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Nicklinson v Ministry of Justice; R (on the applicaion of AM) v DPP
... ... This would include a party to a suicide pact. As recently as 1944 the survivor of a suicide pact was convicted of murder and sentenced to death when he survived and the other party died: R v Croft [1944] 1 KB 295 ... Section 4 of the Homicide Act 1957 modified this draconian stance. It provided that in such circumstances, provided the defendant had a settled intention of dying in pursuance of the pact, he would be guilty of manslaughter rather than murder ... 18 The position was ... ...
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R (on the application of Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (on the application of AM) v DPP
... ... As suicide was regarded as self-murder before 1961, a person who aided or encouraged another person to commit suicide committed an offence; thus, the survivor of a suicide pact was guilty of murdering the successful self-murderer – see R v Croft [1944] 1 KB 295 ... Section 4 of the 1957 Act provided that such a survivor would only be guilty of manslaughter. However, the abolition of suicide four years later as a crime meant that it was necessary to address the question of what to do about assisting and encouraging suicide ... 20 ... ...
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