Attorney General v Woods

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1940
• Date: 01 January 1940
• Court: Circuit Court

(Cir. Ct.),

Attorney-General

and

Woods

- Acquittal of manslaughter -Subsequent charge of driving vehicle with mechanical defects - Road Traffic Act, 1933, s. 52 - Autrefois acquit.

The plea of autrefois acquit is not available to a person charged under s. 52 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933, and who has already been acquitted on a charge of manslaughter founded on the same facts. The test is not whether the evidence to support both charges is the same, but whether the same degree of negligence is...