Murder Flashcards
What is murder?
Where she, a person, unlawfully causes the death of V, also a person, under the King’s peace, with the intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm
What are the exceptions to what the law considers a person?
An unborn child. However, where D inflicts prenatal harm leading to post natal death, V is considered a person of being, completing the AR of murder.
What is the rule concerning acceleration of death?
Causing death includes acceleration of death
What is the mens rea for murder?
Intention to kill or cause GBH
What was established in ADams?
a doctor may, when caring for a petient who is, for ex, dying of cancer, lawfully administer painkilling drugs, despite the fact he knows that an incidental effect of that application will be to abbreviate the patients life
