Lett v R

JurisdictionTrinidad & Tobago
Year1963
Date1963
CourtCourt of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)

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    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
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  • The State v Singh
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 21 December 1995
    ...assuming in law no burden whatever to convince the jury about it, its justification or appropriateness: Lashley v. R [1959] L.R.B.G. 290; Lett v. R (1963) 6 W.I.R. 92; The State v. Bissessar, Crim. App. C.A.(Guyana), No.19/1975, unreported; Mohamed Omar v. The State (1987) 40 W.I.R. 7 Here......
  • The State v Lewis
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 30 January 1976
    ...doubt as to whether the facts show sufficient provocation, that issue must be determined in favour of the accused. [See Lott v. R., (1963) 6 W.I.R. 92; R. v. Prince, (1943) 28 C.A.R. and R. v. Richards, (1967) 11 W.I.R. 102.] Plainly, those were grave misdirections and the appellant might......
  • Denis Alphonse Appellant v The Queen Respondent [ECSC]
    • St Lucia
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Lucia)
    • 31 January 1996
    ...that the original intent must still have been operative in the mind of the accused notwithstanding the intervening provocative act. 18 In Lett v R (1963) 6 WIR 92 Wooding C.J. in the Court of Appeal Trinidad and Tobago said at p.96: "In other words, the jury did not have to find that there ......
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  • Some perspectives on provocation and domestic killing
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 2-1, June 1992
    • 1 June 1992
    ...a quite separate occasion, and that this approach is already written 48 [1992] 1 All E.R. 306, 314 (italics mine). 49 See, e.g., Lett (1963) 6 W.I.R. 92; Bunting (1965) 8 W.I.R. 276; Antoine & Bass (1968) 13 W.I.R. 289; Julien (1970) 16 W.I.R. 395; Baptiste (1983) 34 W.I.R 253. 50 At p. 96.......