The Criminal Appeal Reports, Volume 17Sweet and Maxwell, Limited, 1924 |
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accused admitted alleged appeal against conviction appeal against sentence Appeal dismissed Appellant was convicted appellant's Applicant was convicted Application dismissed Application for leave April Assizes Branson Bywaters called carnal knowledge Central Criminal Court charge circumstances common law conviction and sentence Conviction quashed corroboration counsel count Cox C. C. Criminal Appeal Act Criminal Law Amendment cross-examined Crown December defence facts false pretences girl habitual criminal hard labour Hewart L.C.J. Darling housebreaking imprisonment with hard indecent assault J. N. F. Solicitor JOHN RUDGE JOSEPH GREENBERG July jury JUSTICE SALTER larceny learned judge learned Recorder leave to appeal LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ment misdemeanour November obtaining October penal servitude pleaded guilty police possession present preventive detention previous conviction prisoner prosecution prosecutrix prove question REGINALD DUNN Sankey Sentence reduced sentenced to three Severity of sentence statement statute stolen sub-s submit summing-up Swift tenced Thompson trial verdict Vict WILLIAM witness YELDHAM
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Page 61 - A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may in case the witness shall, in the opinion of the judge, prove adverse contradict him by other evidence or by leave of the judge prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony...
Page 23 - England by any other than a subject of his majesty, or to any person marrying a second time, whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time...
Page 134 - Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of that other offence, the court may, instead of allowing or dismissing the appeal, substitute for the verdict found by the jury a verdict of guilty of that other...
Page 101 - Where the language of a statute, in its ordinary meaning and grammatical construction, leads to a manifest contradiction of the apparent purpose of the enactment, or to some inconvenience or absurdity, hardship or injustice, presumably not intended, a construction may be put upon it which modifies the meaning of the words, and even the structure of the sentence.
Page 102 - Provided that it shall be a sufficient defence to any charge under sub-section one of this section if it shall be made to appear to the court or jury before whom the charge shall be brought that the person so charged had reasonable cause to believe that the girl was of or above the age of sixteen years.
Page 91 - A person shall not be found to be a habitual criminal unless the jury finds on evidence — (a) that since attaining the age of sixteen years he has at least three times previously to the conviction of the crime charged in...
Page 62 - If a witness, upon cross-examination as to a former statement made by him relative to the subject-matter of the cause, and inconsistent with his present testimony, does not distinctly admit that he has made such statement...
Page 61 - ... mentioned proof can be given, the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he 'has made such statement.
Page 48 - But it has long been a rule of practice at common law for the judge to warn the jury of the danger of convicting a prisoner on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice or accomplices, and, in the discretion of the judge, to advise them not to convict upon such evidence; but the judge should point out to the jury that it is within their legal province to convict upon such unconfirmed evidence: see R.
Page 100 - Unlawfully and carnally knows or attempts to have unlawful carnal knowledge of any girl being of or above the age of thirteen years and under the age of sixteen years ; or (2.) Unlawfully and carnally knows, or attempts to have unlawful carnal knowledge of...