On an indictment against a foreigner, who was ship’s carpenter on board a foreign merchant ship, for conspiring in this country, with the foreign owner and master, to destroy or cast away the vessel, with intent to prejudice the owners of goods on board, or the insurers of the ship or cargo (the counts charging an intent to defraud), it being admtted that the prisoner was party to the scutthg the ship on the high seas, the jury were directed to consider whether the prisoner was a party in this country to a previous plan or conspiracy to destroy the ship, not limited to its destination on the high seas, the principal offence not being triable in this country ; and quaere, as to a conspracy so limited
Citations:
[1864] EngR 54, (1864) 4 F and F 68, (1864) 176 ER 470
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Crime, Transport
Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.281768
