The Weekly Law Reports
[1954] 2 WLR 343
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
DAVIES APPELLANT; AND DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS RESPONDENT.
1954 Jan. 12,
13,
14,
15.
Feb. 19.
Feb. 19.
LORD SIMONDS L.C., LORD PORTER, LORD OAKSEY, LORD TUCKER and LORD ASQUITH OF BISHOPSTONE.
Criminal Law
— Evidence
— Accomplice
— Warning
— Necessity for
— Rule of law
— “Accomplice”
— Meaning
— Receivers
— Evidence of system
— Issue of accomplice vel non
— Whether determinable by judge or jury
— Murder
— Fight between groups of youths
— Death from stab wound
— Participant in fight acquitted of murder and convicted of common assault
— Witness against participant charged with murder
— Whether warning necessary in charge to jury.
Fact or law.