The Criminal Appeal Reports, Volume 15Sweet & Maxwell, 1921 |
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25 April accomplices accused ALAN HENRY Appeal against conviction Appeal against sentence Appeal dismissed Appellant was convicted appellant's application for leave Assizes Baron Pollock bigamy Central Criminal Court charge committed conspiracy conviction and sentence Conviction quashed counsel Court for Crown Court of Criminal Cox C. C. crime Criminal Appeal Act Crown Cases Reserved defence Deputy-Chairman EDLIN evidence fact Gaol Delivery given ground habitual criminal hard labour horse imprisonment with hard judgment jurisdiction jury JUSTICE AVORY JUSTICE DARLING larceny learned judge leave to appeal LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ment mis-trial murder November nullity offence opinion Oyer and Terminer penal servitude perjury person Peterborough pleaded guilty police present previous convictions prisoner probable cause prosecution Quarter Sessions Reading L.C.J. Darling Recorder regard Salter Sankey Sentence reduced Severity of sentence Shearman Solicitors special provisions statement statute stealing sub-s tenced trial tried venire de novo Vict Weisz wife WILLIAM CRANE
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Page 107 - Rule 1. Where there is an unconditional contract for the sale of specific goods, in a deliverable state, the property in the goods passes to the buyer when the contract is made, and it is immaterial whether the time of payment or the time of delivery, or both, be postponed.
Page 51 - On the other hand, the mere fact that the evidence adduced tends to show the commission of other crimes does not render it inadmissible if it be relevant to an issue before the jury, and it may be so relevant if it bears upon the question whether the acts alleged to constitute the crime charged in the indictment were designed or accidental, or to rebut a defence which would otherwise be open to the accused.
Page 138 - At common law an honest and reasonable belief in the existence of circumstances, which, if true, would make the act for which the person is indicted an innocent act, has always been held to be a good defense.
Page 71 - ... and the court passes a sentence of penal servitude, the court, if of opinion that by reason of his criminal habits and mode of life it is expedient for the protection of the public that the offender should be kept in detention for a lengthened period of years, may pass a further sentence ordering that on the determination of the sentence of penal servitude...
Page 104 - Where there is a contract for the sale of specific or ascertained goods the property in them is transferred to the buyer at such time as the parties to the contract intend it to be transferred.
Page 214 - Court. (7) The Court of Criminal Appeal shall be a superior Court of record, and shall, for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of this Act, have full power to determine, in accordance with this Act, any questions necessary to be determined for the purpose of doing justice in the case before the Court.
Page 136 - ... the Space of Seven Years then last past, and shall not have been known by such Person to be living within that Time, or shall extend to any Person who at the Time of such Second Marriage shall have been divorced from the Bond of the First Marriage, or to any Person whose former Marriage shall have been declared void by the Sentence of any Court of competent Jurisdiction.
Page 107 - If he does not signify his approval or acceptance to the seller but retains the goods without giving notice of rejection, then, if a time has been fixed for the return of the goods, on the expiration of such time, and, if no time has been fixed, on the expiration of a reasonable time.
Page 136 - And be it enacted, that if any person being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife, whether the second marriage shall have taken place in England or elsewhere, every such offender, and every person counselling, aiding, or abetting such offender, shall be guilty of felony...
Page viii - Whosoever shall send, deliver or utter, or directly or indirectly cause to be received, knowing the contents thereof, any letter or writing demanding of any person with menaces, and without any reasonable or probable cause, any property, chattel, money, valuable security or other valuable thing, shall be guilty of felony...