R v Shaw

JurisdictionJamaica
Date1963
CourtCourt of Appeal (Jamaica)
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8 cases
  • Outridge v The State
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 30 Noviembre 1982
    ...the aggregate time spent is less than the minimum statutory period. A majority verdict thus arrived at cannot stand as the Jamaican case of R. v. Shaw, (1963) 5 W.I.R. 212 shows. Other cases show that problems arise where, although the aggregate time spent in deliberation may satisfy the s......
  • Hetsberger v The State
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 15 Enero 1987
    ...his pistol pointing it in the direction of the deceased in fear. That in my view is an unlawful act but which might have been justified. In R v Hall (1961) 45 Cr. App. R. 366 the appellant's wife and a gentleman were intimately associated. His wife was missing. He set out to find herself an......
  • R v Shaw
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 23 Septiembre 1963
    ...This very point was taken on behalf of the appellant on appeal against hisconviction on the first trial of the same indictment. See R. v. Shaw (1963) 5 W.I.R.212. Duffus, J.A., delivering the judgment of the court said, at p.214: “It seems to us in the circumstances of this case that the le......
  • Lawrence v The State
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 1 Enero 1999
    ...the aggregate time spent is less than the minimum statutory period. A majority verdict thus arrived at cannot stand as the Jamaican case of R v. Shaw shows.” 11 The other two judges namely, Messiah, J.A. as he then was, and Vieira, J.A. expressed similar views. 12 In R v. McDonald & Haye (1......
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