Criminal law cases Flashcards
Homicide ( voluntary )
Drury v HMA
Homicide ( unlawful )
Sutherland v HMA
Homicide ( assault )
Bird v HMA
Homicide ( provocation )
Mcdermott v HMA
Murder
Brennan v HMA
Assault
Hynd v Mcgleenan
Breach of the peace
Rooney v Brown
Theft
Appropriation ●Only corporeal property can be stolen ●Cannot steal your own property in Scotland Without consent Belonging to another
Embezzlement
Appropriation with authority
●Corporeal and incorporeal property can be embezzled
●Can embezzle property to which you have a title or are in possession of
Robbery
Appropriation
Property
Belonging to another
Without consent
Personal Violence
Reckless injury
Men’s rea : recklessness is a form of risk taking
Actus reus: Reckless conduct which causes actual injury
HMA v Harris
Reckless endangerment
Men’s rea : recklessness is a form of risk taking
Actus reus: Recklessly endangering the safety of the public
●Injury need not be caused
BUT
●Behaviour must be objectively dangerous to others
Normand v Robinson