Baptiste v The State
| Jurisdiction | Trinidad & Tobago |
| Year | 1983 |
| Date | 1983 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago) |
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24 cases
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Che Gregory Spencer Appellant v DPP Respondent [ECSC]
...approaches his summation. Accordingly, this ground of appeal is dismissed. Sigismund Palmer et al v The Queen [1971] AC 814 applied; Baptiste v The State (1983) 34 WIR 253 applied; Fabien LaRoche v The State Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Court of Appeal No. 32 of 2009 (delivered 20 th ......
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Wong v The State
...judge, he contended, in so directing the jury deprived the appellant of a possible manslaughter verdict, relying on an extract from BAPTISTE v. THE STATE (1983) 34 W.I.R. 253, at pp 262–3: “Another important direction that the judge must give to a jury in appropriate cases is that an intent......
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Kevin Peterkin v R
...as it is to one of provocation, though of course the latter plea goes only to a mitigation of the offence.” (Emphasis added) 85 In Baptiste v The State (1983) 34 WIR 253, a case in which the deceased was killed in circumstances in which the appellant similarly raised the defences of accide......
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La Roche v The State
...was not inconsistent with an accused forming an intention to kill. Mr. Singh referred to two of this Court's earlier decisions, Baptiste v The State 34 WIR 253 and Sinanan and Others v. The State 44 W.I.R. 383. 14 In Baptiste v. The State, the issues of self-defence, accident, and provocati......
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Some perspectives on provocation and domestic killing
...the Ivory Tower", New Law Jo., 20 March 1992, p. 381. 36 See, e.g., Julien (1970) 16 W.I.R. 395, 400 (per Fraser J.A.) and Baptiste (1983) 34 W.I.R. 253, 262 (per Kelsick Acting C.J.). this court. He cannot now ever be heard. He has no defender to argue for him. It does not matter how cruel......