The State v Guy Simmons
| Jurisdiction | Guyana |
| Date | 1976 |
| Year | 1976 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Guyana) |
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22 cases
- The State v Singh (Clement)
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The State v Singh
...that the mischance had actually taken place, but for the prosecution to negative that defence.” 92 This principle was also applied in State v. Guy Simmons (1976) 24 W.I.R. 93 In this appeal, it is common ground that the learned trial judge did not mention the defence of accident and, there......
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Wong v The State
...on the issues arising, so that they may render a verdict appropriate to the matter in hand. R. H Luckhoo, J.A. in THE STATE v. SIMMONS (1976) 24 W.I.R. 149 had this to say, at p. 155: “I have not been unmindful of the fact that a summing-up is not meant to be a dissertation upon the law. Fo......
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Kevin Peterkin v R
...it (see R v Wheeler [1967] 3 ALL ER 829 and R v Abraham [1973] 3 ALL E R 694 with respect to self-defence and provocation; and The State v Guy Simmons (1976) 24 WIR 149, with respect to accident). Therefore, in addition to the general directions on burden and standard of proof, the learn......
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The plea of accident in the criminal law
...See, e.g., explicitly Ferguson (1983) 34 W.I.R. 1 (The Bahamas), Lynch Belize (unrep.) No. 22 of 1995 (3.8.96) and The States. Simmons (1976) 24 W.I.R. 149 where the trial judge had referred to the "defence" of accident but the Court of Appeal of Guyana, per Luckhoo, J.A., was emphatic that......