Murder Cases Flashcards
Case of R v paggett
Pregnant girlfriend killed by police shooting at boyfriend
Case of R V White 1910
Poison in mothers drink
R v smith 1959
Soldiers fight
R v Jordan 1956
V stabbed, suffered alergic reaction in hospital
R V robens 1971
Girl jumped from car to escape sexual advances
R V Williams 1992
Hitch hiker jumped from car and died
Case of Vickers 1957
Vickers broke into a sweet shop knowing that the lady who owned it was deaf. When she found him in the cellar he hit her several times and kicked her in the head once, she died as a result
COA upheld murder conviction stating that intention to GBH is sufficient with Malice Aforethought
Maloney 1985
D and drunken step father raced to see who could load a shot gun quickest, d was challenged to fire gun and killed step father when doing do
Foresight of consequence was not intention it was only evidence that intention could then be inferred from
Hancock and Shankland 1996
D were minors who had thrown a concrete block onto a motorway striking a taxi carrying minor, killed the driver. Ds argued they were only trying to block the road. Appeal for murder to manslaughter
Lord Scarman: intention was not to be eauated with foresight of consequence
Nedrick 1989
D poured petrol through womens letterbox who he had a grudge with, lit it and drove off, child died in fire.
2 part test: if d was aware it was highly probably that the act would result in serious harm or death, even if he did not desire the result he would still be guilty of murder- changed from high probability test to virtual certainty at around this time
