Anthony Nevada Johnson v The State

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Type: Case

Citation: [1999] 1 WLR 2000, PC

Summary: Judge fundamentally misdirecting to jury by directing them in accordance with felony/murder rule — If evidence had been directed to whether defendant had contemplated use of the firearm jury would not inevitably have convicted him of murder and so appellate court had erred in applying proviso — Murder conviction quashed and in circumstances conviction of manslaughter could not be substituted

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Court: PC

Jurisdiction: Trinidad and Tobago

Date 1999