The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1940] AC 231
[JUDICIAL COMMITTEE]
WALLACE-JOHNSON APPELLANT; AND THE KING RESPONDENT.
ON APPEAL FROM THE WEST AFRICAN COURT OF APPEAL.
1939 Dec. 11.
VISCOUNT CALDECOTE L.C., LORD THANKERTON, LORD ALNESS, LORD ROMER, and SIR GEORGE RANKIN.
West Africa (Gold Coast)
— Criminal law
— Sedition
— Newspaper article
— Seditious intention
— Incitement to violence not a necessary ingredient of crime of sedition
— Extrinsic evidence of intention not essential
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Criminal Code (Gold Coast), c. 29, s. 330, sub-s. 2 (b), (e), sub-s. 8 (now s. 326, sub-s. 2 (b), (e), sub-s. 8, of the Criminal Code, 1936 Revision, c. 9)
— Construction.