Davies v Director of Public Prosecutions (on appeal from R v Davies (Michael))

Subject Matter

CRIME — 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 — Fact or law.