Regina v Betty: 1963

If two men attack another without any intention to cause death or grievous bodily harm, and during the course of the attack one man forms an intention to kill the victim, and strikes the fatal blow with that intention, he may be convicted of murder while the other participant in the plan may be convicted of manslaughter
Lord Parker CJ approved a direction that ‘anybody who is a party to an attack which results in an unlawful killing which results in death is a party to the killing’.

Judges:

Lord Parker CJ

Citations:

(1964) 48 Cr App R 6, [1963] 3 All ER 602

Cited by:

CitedJogee and Ruddock (Jamaica) v The Queen SC 18-Feb-2016
Joint Enterprise Murder
(and in Privy Council) The two defendants appealed against their convictions (one in Jamaica) for murder, under the law of joint enterprise. Each had been an accessory when their accomplice killed a victim with a knife. The judge in Jogee had . .
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Crime

Updated: 16 May 2022; Ref: scu.560304