Regina v John Swindall And James Osborne: 23 Mar 1846

If each of two persons be driving a cart at a dangerous and furious rate, and they be inciting: each other to drive at a dangerous and furious rate along a turnpike road, and one of the carts run over a man and kill him, each of the two persons is guilty of manslaughter, and it is no ground of defence, that the death was partly caused by the negligence of the deceased himself, or that he was either deaf or drunk at the time Generally, it may be laid down, that, where one by his negllgence has contributed to the death of another, he is guilty of manslaughter.

[1846] EngR 506, (1846) 2 Car and K 230, (1846) 175 ER 95
Commonlii
England and Wales

Crime

Updated: 19 January 2022; Ref: scu.302401