The appellant had falsely alleged that she had been robbed by a man whose description she gave to the police. It was the description of an imaginary man. She had been convicted of unlawfully effecting a public mischief.
Held: Lord Hewart CJ said: ‘In the opinion of the court the indictment aptly describes two ingredients of public mischief or prejudice to the community, one of these being that officers of the Metropolitan Police were lead to devote their time and services to the investigation of an idle charge the other being that members of the public or at any rate those of them who answered a certain description were put in peril of suspicion and arrest.’
Judges:
Lord Hewart CJ
Citations:
[1933] 1 KB 529
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v Cotter and Others CACD 10-May-2002
The defendants appealed against convictions for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. They said that the fact that an investigation followed a false allegation was insufficient to found a complaint, and that the extent of the crime was so . .
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Crime
Updated: 09 November 2022; Ref: scu.383662
