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Aggravated wounding or injury
- with intent to
- commit or Facilitate the commission of any imprisonable offence or
– avoid the detection of himself or any other person in the commission of any imprisonable offence
– avoid the arrest or facilitate the flight of himself or any other person upon the commission or attempted commission of an impressionable offence
– wounds, maims, disfigures, or causes GBH to any person, or stupefies or renders unconscious any person, or by any violent means renders any person in capable of resistance,
2) Was any such intent as for said, Injures any person
R V Tihi - twofold intent
- The defendant intended to facilitate the commission of an impressionable offence or one of the intent specified in A, B or C
– he or she intended to cause the specified harm, always reckless as to that risk
R v Wati
There must be proof of the commission or attempted commission of crime either by the person committing the assault or by the person whose arrest or flight was intended to avoid or facilitate
Stupefy
To cause and effect on the mind or nervous system of a person which really seriously interferes with that persons mental or physical ability to act in any way which might hinder intended crime
R V Strum
Administering alcohol, ecstasy and other drugs to a number of male victims in order to dull the senses sufficiently to enable him to sexually violate them
Violent means
The application of force that physically incapacitate person, such as tying the victims hands and feet or inflicting debilitating injuries
R V Crossan
It was held that a mere threat may not and itself be sufficient to constitute violent means, but when the person making the threat is brandishing a loaded revolver and circumstances that caused the victim to submit to his will and the belief that he will carry out the threats unless she does so, it can be said that she was rendered incapable of resistance by violent means just as effectively if she was physically incapable
Aggravated assault - 192
- Assaults any person with intent
– to commit or facilitate the commission of an approachable offence
– to avoid the detection of himself or any other person in the commission of an impressionable offence
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To avoid arrest or facilitate the flight of himself or any other person upon the commission of any imprisonable offence
– assaults any constable or person acting in the aid of any constable, or any other person in the lawful execution of any process, with intent to obstruct that person so assaulted in the execution of his duty
Assault - 3 points
- Intention to apply or attempt to apply force to another
– application or attempted application of force, weather directly or indirectly
– threatened to apply force in circumstances where the victim believes offender will carry out the threat
Discharging firearm or doing dangerous act with intent - 198
– With intent to do GBH
– discharge is any firearm, airgun, or other similar weapon at any person or
– sends or delivers to any person, put in place, any explosive or injurious substance or device
– sets fire to any property
2) With intent to injure, or with reckless disregard for the safety of others, does any of the acts referred to in subsection one
198 - men’s and actus rea
– Intent to do GBH
– intent to injure
– reckless disregard for the safety of others
– Discharge a firearm at a person
– delivering explosives
– setting fire to property
198(1)(b) - offence is complete
And the section is not necessary for an explosion to occur, the offences complete when they explosive or injurious substance or device is sent, delivered, or put in place.
However the substance must have the capacity to explode or cause injury
198A - Using any firearm against law-enforcement
- Uses any firearm in any matter whatever,
- against any constable, or any traffic officer, or any prison officer,
- acting in the course of his or her duty
Knowing that, or being reckless whether or not that person is a member of the place or a traffic officer or a prison officer also acting
2) Uses any firearm in any manner whatever with intent to resist the lawful arrest or detention of himself or herself or any other person
Uses in relation to a firearm
If the defendant has handled or manipulated the firearm so as to convey an implied threat of further use against the police officer
R V Swain
Set deliberately or purposefully remove a sawn off shotgun from a bag after being confronted by or called upon by a police constable amounts to the use of that firearm within the meaning of 198A
Police V Parker
Use in any manner whatever is to contemplate a situation short of actually firing the weapon and would include presenting it
Fisher V R
It is necessary in order to establish a charge under 198A(2) for the crown to prove that the accused knew someone was attempting to arrest or detain him because otherwise the element of mens rea of intending to resist lawful arrest or detention cannot be established
198B(1) - Commission of an impressionable offence with firearm
A) in committing any imprisonable offence, Uses any firearm
B) while committing any imprisonable offence has any firearm with him or her and circumstances that prima facie show an intention to use it in connection with that impressionable offence
Tuli v police
Primer Facey circumstances are those which are sufficient to show or Establishment intent in the absence of evidence to the contrary
Uses any firearm
Firing or presenting a firearm, or displaying in a minutes in manner, but may not extend to the use of the firearm as a club
R V Maihi
It is implicit in accompany that there must be a nexus between the act of stealing and the threat of violence. Both must be present
However the term does not require that the act of stealing in the threat of violence be contemporaneous
R V Mitchell
There may be occasions where the property is handed over to a thief as a result of threats previously made but still operating on the mind of the victim at the time… The question will be one of fact and degree in each case
Peneha v police
It is sufficient that the actions of the defendant forcibly interfere with the personal freedom or amount to forcible power or violent action or motion producing a very marked or powerful affect tending to cause GBH or discomfort
R V Galey
Being together was in the context of 235B involves two or more persons having a common intention to use their combined Force, either in any event or as circumstances might require, directly in the perpetration of the crime
Anything appearing to be such a weapon
It must be proved both that the object appeared to be an offensive weapon or instrument to the victim and that the defendant intended or was at least reckless as the possibility it would be perceived as a weapon