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Rape
s. 48 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861) that any person convicted of rape shall be guilty of felony, and be liable to be kept in penal servitude for life, or for not less than
Drunkenness
so drunk as to be utterly unable to form any intention at all, and yet he may by guilty of very great violence.'--Per Patterson, J., in R. v. Cruse, (1838) 8 C&P 541. Thus if a man
Sessions of the peace
her an appeal from any conviction by a Court of summary jurisdiction where the appellant has not pleaded guilty to or admitted the offence [(English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, s. 37 (1)]; and under the Criminal
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guilty but mentally ill
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Acquittal
Acquittal, The legal certification usually by jury verdict that an accused person is not guilty of the charged offence. [fr. acquitter, Fr.; quietus, Lat., to free, acquit, or discharged], a deliverance and setting … also acquitted, 2 Inst. 384. Means the legal certification, usually by jury verdict, that an accused person is not guilty of the charged offence, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24. If person is acquitted and ordered to
Infanticide
the balance of her mind is still dis-turbed causes the death of such newly-born child, she shall be guilty of infanticide (and not murder) and punishable as for manslaughter. The jury may, however, find the woman guilty
Birth, Concealing
whether such child died before, at, or after his birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdeameanour, punishable with imprisonment not exceeding two years. To constitute the offence it must be established
Perjury
that proceeding, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, he will be guilty of perjury and liable to penal servitude for not exceeding seven years, or imprisonment with or without hard
Fox's Act
which secured to juries, upon indictments for libel, the right of pronouncing a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and no longer bound them to find a verdict of guilty on
Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea.
reum, nisi mens sit rea. 3 Inst. 307; Co. Litt. 247 b.--(An act does not make a man guilty, unless there be guilty intention.) This is one of the most important rules of criminal law. 'As a
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