Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting TragedyBloomsbury Academic, 1994 - 353 páginas Cannibalism and the Common Law is an enthralling classic of legal history. It tells the tragic story of the yacht Mignonette, which foundered on its way from England to Australia in 1884. The killing and eating of one of the crew, Richard Parker, led to the leading case in the defence of necessity, R. v. Dudley and Stephens. It resulted in their being convicted and sentenced to death, a sentence subsequently commuted. In this tour de force Brian Simpson sets the legal proceedings in their broadest historical context, providing a detailed account of the events and characters involved and of life at sea in the time of sail. Cannibalism and the Common Law is a demonstration that legal history can be written in human terms and can be compulsive reading. This brilliant and fascinating book, a marvelous example of eareful historical detection, and first-class legal history, written by a master. |
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... trial at the next assizes before a judge and jury . After referring to the sympathy all must feel for them , he went on , " The evidence could not leave the bench in doubt as to their course of sending the prisoners for trial . They had ...
... trial for murder after that date of a person accused of the crime committed before 1881 ( in Packer's case , 1874 ) . So Packer's trial had been a complete nullity . Although execution was stayed , the supreme court took its time in ...
... trial - Alexander Pearce and Alferd Packer are examples — but their trials did not raise this ques- tion ; instead , the issue was whether they acted in self - defense or lacked deliberate intent to kill . Cases of psychopathological ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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