In the case of Regina v. Machekequonabe (28 O.R. 309 [1897]), the defendant shouldn’t have been found guilty even though an innocent life was life. It was not his intention to kill and was a very honest mistake. At that moment, he felt that his life was in danger. To him, he saw wendigo which was very common in his culture, he heard stories about it, and he knew that it could kill him. In order for him not to get killed by it, he had to kill it, even though it was not what he thought it was. People make mistakes like this at times, a lot of time we see spouse killing their significant other all because they heard noise in their homes and thought it was someone coming to harm them when it was their spouse. It is the same for this case. Our justice
