R v William Britton Dyson
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1823 |
| Date | 01 January 1823 |
English Reports Citation: 168 E.R. 930
LINCOLN'S INN
1823. rex v. william britton dyson (Murder. If a man encourages another to murder himself and is present abetting him while he does so, such person is guflty of murder as a principal. If two encourage each other to murder themselves together, and one does so, but the other fails in the attempt upon himself, he is a principal in the murder of the other. But if it be uncertain whether the deceased really killed himself or whether he came to his death by accident before the moment when he meant to destroy himself, it will not be mmrder in either ) The prisoner was tried before Mr. Justice Best, at the September Old Bailey sesaons in the year 1823, on an mdictmemt, which stated that he, on &c., at &c., in and uport Eliza Anthony, spinster, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did make an assault, and that he with both his hands the said Eliza Anfhony, into the waters of a certain...
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...was guilty of murder as a principal in the second 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 6 A person who encouraged or assisted another to commit suicide but who was not present when the ......
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IL v R
...Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested under Proper Heads, 8th ed (1824), vol 1 at 78. 37 R v Dyson (1823) Russ & Ry 523 at 524 [ 168 ER 930 at 931]; R v Jessop (1877) 16 Cox CC 204 at 38 Kenny, Outlines of Criminal Law, (1902). 39 Kenny, Outlines of Criminal Law, (1902) at 112. 40 Kenn......
