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7 Cards in this Set
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HMA v Robertson and Donaghue |
Two accused struggled with an elderly shopkeeper who died of heart failure. He had a very weak heart. Court needed to decide whether the struggle had caused his death or whether it was a pure mischance. |
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R v White |
Accused had put poison in his mother's drink, but she then died of a heart attack. Convicted of attempted murder and not murder. |
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Bird v HMA |
Accused chased woman down a road and tried to grab her. She was so scared that she stopped a passing car and got in, where she collapsed and died of shock. Accused was convicted of culpable homicide although he had not intended to kill her. |
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R v Blaue |
Accused had attacked a woman with a knife. She was a Jehovah's witness and had refused a blood transfusion and died as a result. Found guilty of manslaughter. |
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McDonald v HMA |
The two accused had seriously assaulted a man and then locked him in a flat with no phone. After 30 minutes he tried to escape out of the window and fell to his death. Held that this was as a direct result of the initial assault. |
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Khaliq v HMA |
Accused had provided glue sniffing kits to children and argued that they had chosen to then do so. Held that a victim's contribution does not constitute a novus actus interveniens unless it was genuinely unexpected or unrelated from the accused's conduct. |
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Finlayson v HMA |
Accused had injected victim with noxious mixture of substances who suffered immediate brain death. Held that the switching off of the life-support machine did not constitute a novus actus interveniens and accused still guilty of culpable homicide. |
