R v Trigg

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1963
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal
Date1963
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16 cases
  • R v Willoughby
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 10 February 1988
    ...cases that the proviso can be applied where there has been a failure properly to direct the jury on the question of corroboration: see R. v. Trigg (1963) 47 Cr. App. R. 94 and R. v. Birchall (1986) 82 Cr. App. R. 208. 26 For these reasons we allow the appeal and quash the convictions on all......
  • R v Mainwaring
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 7 May 1981
    ...found that they had been accomplices. This was a serious omission from the summing-up. The Court has reminded itself of what was said in Reg. v. Trigg, (1963) 47 Cr. App. R. 94, per Ashworth J. at p. 101: "In principle this court feels that cases where no warning as to corroboration is give......
  • R v Midwinter
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 15 July 1971
    ...a direction to the jury on corroboration. The case which may be regarded as final in deciding that proposition beyond doubt is the case of R. v. Trigg reported in 63 1 Weekly Law Reports at page 305. It is true that it has been said in the later case of R. v. O'Reilly 1967 2 Queen's Bench, ......
  • R v Birchall
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 8 October 1985
    ...In any event we think that the position is today precisely the same as it was in 1963 where in the judgment of this court in the case of R. v. Trigg 47 Cr. App.R. 94 at page 101 it was said: "In principle this court feels that cases where no warning as to corrobation is given where it shoul......
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