R v Martindale
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1966 |
| Year | 1966 |
| Court | Courts-Martial Appeal Court |
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7 cases
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DPP v MacEoin
...provocation may be established notwithstanding the fact that the accused intended to kill or cause serious injury. R. v. MartindaleWLR [1966] 1 W.L.R. 1564 approved. 2. That, accordingly, the trial of the accused had been unsatisfactory and that there should be a new trial. Semble: In consi......
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Bholanauth v The State
...an intention to kill and that the principles were correctly stated in that case as well as in the earlier case of Perera. [See also R. v. Martindale [1966] 3 All E.R. 305.] 21 I do not wish it to be thought that I am attempting to expound any new doctrines on excusable homicide perpetrated ......
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Jacobs v The Queen
...far!” “What I am doing is wrong:” I cannot discern what direction the learned trial judge gave the jury on the law of provocation. See R v. Martindale [1966] 3 All E.R. 305. 45 In my view the learned trial judge gave little or no legal direction on provocation and moreover, the way he dealt......
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R v Ruth Ellis
...Cases stated the law in these terms at the time and continued to do so until its 35 th edition published in 1962 (see R v Martindale [1966] 1 WLR 1564 at p 1567). 73 The question that we have to address is not whether the Crown's view may have been wrong but whether the judge's ruling was i......
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2 books & journal articles
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Injustice Perpetuated? The Contribution of the Court of Appeal
...always ameliorate a 31 Holmes v DPP [1946] AC 588, disapproved in Attorney-General for Ceylon v Perera [1953] AC 200; R v Martindale (1966) 50 Cr App R 273. 32 Of course, there is a problem where an unmeritorious applicant takes the benefit a transient statement of law: such was the case of......
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North of the Border
...be published three times a yearand, by a pleasing arrangement, willbe supplied free for the year 1967.ThecaseofR. v. Martindale [1966]3 All E.R. 305, illustrates the desira-bility of keeping up to date with the83 ...