The Criminal Appeal Reports, Volume 1Sweet & Maxwell, 1909 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
18 December 21 November admitted alibi alleged Allmark appeal against conviction appeal against sentence Appeal dismissed appellant under sect Appellant was convicted appellant's application for leave Application refused arrested asked Assizes Barrister-at-Law burglary call further evidence Central Criminal Court Chairman CHANNELL charged cloth corroboration counsel Court of Criminal Cox C. C. Criminal Appeal Act cross-examination Crown December defence Deputy-Chairman Edition fact false pretences full Court given hard labour Home Secretary imprisonment with hard Inner Temple insane James John July jury Justice Darling larceny learned judge leave to appeal leave to call legal aid LORD CHIEF JUSTICE miscarriage of justice misdirection North London Sessions November October offence penal servitude person PHILLIMORE Pickford pleaded guilty point of law police premises present previous convictions prisoner prosecution prosecutor proved public-house Quarter Sessions question receiving referred Solicitor statement stealing stolen submitted summing-up trial twelve months verdict wife William witnesses
Popular passages
Page xxiv - Every regulation under this act shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat...
Page 101 - ... whosoever with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman whether she be or be not with child shall unlawfully administer to her or cause to be taken by her any poison or other noxious thing or shall unlawfully use any iuatruineut or other means whatsoever...
Page xxv - ... on any ground of appeal which involves a question of fact alone, or a question of mixed law and fact, or...
Page xv - Appeal shall, if they allow an appeal against conviction, quash the conviction and direct a judgment and verdict of acquittal to be entered.
Page xviii - If the cause or matter requires any prolonged examination of documents or any scientific or local investigation which cannot in the opinion of the Court or a judge conveniently be made before a jury or conducted by the Court through its other ordinary officers ; or (c) If the question in dispute consists wholly or in part of matters of account...
Page xxvi - ... (2) This act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. (3) This act shall come into operation on the...
Page xv - If it appears to the Court of Criminal Appeal that an Powers of appellant, though not properly convicted on some count or part of the indictment, has been properly convicted on some other count or part of the indictment, the Court may either affirm the sentence passed on the appellant at the trial, or pass such sentence in substitution therefor as they think proper, and as may be warranted in law by the verdict on the count or part of the indictment on which the Court consider that the appellant...
Page xviii - ... application for the purpose, of the husband or wife of the appellant, in cases where the evidence of the husband or wife could not have been given at the trial except on such an application...
Page 24 - The result of these authorities is, that the rule of law on this subject seems to be, that if a man find goods that have been actually lost, or are reasonably supposed by him to have been lost, and appropriates them, with intent to take the entire dominion over them, really believing when he takes them, that the owner cannot be found, it is not larceny. But if he takes them with the like intent, though lost, or reasonably supposed to be lost, but reasonably believing that the owner can be found,...