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R v Wallace (1931) 23 Cr App R 32 is a leading English criminal case, the first time a conviction for murder was overturned on the ground that the verdict "cannot be supported, having regard to the evidence", as provided for by Section 4(1) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907. The headnote states: "The Court will quash a conviction founded on mere ...
William Herbert Wallace (29 August 1878 – 26 February 1933) was an Englishman convicted in 1931 of the murder of his wife, Julia, in their home in Wolverton Street in Liverpool's Anfield district. Wallace's conviction was later overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeal , the first instance in British legal history where an appeal had been ...
Pages in category "1931 in case law" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... R. R v Wallace; Royal Mail Case; S. Sagar v Ridehalgh & Sons Ltd
Hawke sat with Lord Chief Justice Hewart and Mr Justice Branson in the Court of Criminal Appeal on 18 and 19 May 1931 to hear an appeal against a conviction for murder in R. v. Wallace. For the first time ever, the Court overturned a conviction in a capital case on the ground that the verdict "can not be supported having regard to the evidence".
I am writing to inquire whether Sir Paul's father was one of the witnesses in the case of R v Wallace, the famous Liverpool murder case from 1931; I had heard this many years ago, but neither the Wallace nor James McCartney articles mention this information.
Bell v Lever Brothers Ltd, in which he was reversed by the House of Lords. Rex v Wallace [1931] 23 Cr App R 32, A famous murder case, the verdict being overturned on appeal. R v Kylsant & Otrs, known as the Royal Mail Case.
Category: 1931 in British law. 1 language. ... R. R v Wallace; Royal Mail Case; S. Sagar v Ridehalgh & Sons Ltd; Statute of Westminster 1931
R v Wallace (1931) 23 Cr App R 32 murder conviction overturned for being unreasonable; R v Adams [1957] Crim LR 365; R v Hancock [1985] UKHL 9, foresight needed for murder; R v Dear [1996] Crim LR 595 chain of causation not broken for murder when wounds reopened by victim; R v Woollin [1999] 1 AC 82; R v Golds [2016] UKSC 61; Road Traffic Act ...