LawCite Search | LawCite Markup Tool | Help | Feedback

Law
Cite


Cases Referring to this Case | Law Reform Reports Referring to this Case | Law Journal Articles Referring to this Case | Legislation Cited | Cases and Articles Cited

Help

R v Moxam     1

(1973) 21 WIR 389
West Indian Reports
“ one has to note with some sympathy the dilemma of the trial judge who has to navigate between the Scylla of leaving provocation when he should not and the Charybdis of not leaving it when he should In the latter case, a conviction for murder may be quashed while in the former a conviction for manslaughter may also be quashed, for by wrongly leaving the issue of provocation to the jury, the judge may have deprived the appellant of the chance of a complete acquittal, for example

Cases Referring to this Case

Case Name Citation(s) †  Court Jurisdiction Date Full Text Citation Index
State vs Burnett, Dave [2006] TTHC 12 High Court of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 17 Feb 2006 CommonLII flag

LawCite: Privacy | Disclaimers | Conditions of Use | Acknowledgements | Feedback