R V. BLAUE After the victim refused the defendant’s sexual advances the defendant stabbed the victim four times. Whist the victim was admitted to hospital she required medical treatment which involved a blood transfusion. The victim was a Jehovah’s Witness whose...
R V. BAINBRIDGE The defendant purchased oxygen-cutting equipment. Weeks later, the equipment was used in a bank break-in and was left behind by the thieves. The defendant was convicted as an accessory before the fact. The conviction was founded upon the...
HAUGHTON V. SMITH The defendant appealed against his conviction for attempting to handle stolen goods. They were to be delivered to him in a van, but the meat was intercepted and recovered by the police. The defendant argued that he should...
DPP V. STONEHOUSE The defendant had been charged with attempting to obtain property by deception by fabricating his death by drowning in the sea off Miami in Florida. The final act alleged to constitute the offence occurred outside the jurisdiction of...
R V. ROBINSON The defendant was owed £7 by a woman. He approached the woman’s husband brandishing a knife, and a fight ensued during which the woman’s husband dropped a £5 note. The defendant picked up the £5 note and demanded...
R V. BUTTON It was not a good runner and so obtained a better handicap than he deserved for the race which he won. He was arrested as he attempted to collect the prize but the deception merely gave him the...
R V. OFFIONG The accused enter the woman’ s room uninvited, took off his clothes, expressed a desire for sexual intercourse with her, and actually caught hold of her. The court held that these acts fell short of an attempt to...
OGUNDIPE V. R The appellants who were in a position to influence the conduct of a trade union, demanded from contractors who required he service of laborer’s, certain sums of money and higher rates if pay than had hitherto been paid...
NNAJI V. IGP the facts were that the elders of a community had met together and agreed that from time to time they would hear and try cases of theft in their community and would deal with the offenders according to...
STATE V. OSOBA The dispatch if a telegram from Lagos to London which induced the conversion of money in England to the use of the accused was sufficient initial element to ground a charge of stealing against the accused under the...
