People (Attorney General) v Kehoe
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 19 June 1951 |
| Date | 19 June 1951 |
| Court | Central Criminal Court (Ireland) |
Central Criminal Court.
The People v. Kehoe.
THE PEOPLE (at the suit of the Attorney General)
and
JAMES KEHOE
Criminal law - Evidence - Competency of witness - Mode of ascertaining - Right of person taking objection to competency to cross-examine and call evidence upon issue of competency - Judge's duty to determine competency or incompetency - Practice.
Criminal Prosecution.
James Kehoe was charged at the Central Criminal Court, in Dublin, upon three counts of having unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman who was feeble-minded in circumstances which proved that James Kehoe knew, at the time of the alleged offences, that such woman was feeble-minded, contrary to s. 4 of the Criminal Law Amendment...
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2 cases
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DPP v Campion
...of expert psychiatric evidence on the question of the reliability of a witness, referring to Director of Public Prosecutions v Kehoe [1951] I.R. 70 and Toohey v The Metropolitan Police Commissioner [1965] A.C. 595. He was also concerned about the lack of any authority for the suggestion t......
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Relihan v Kerry County Council
...of law which Mr. Justice Teevan purported to apply is stated by Mr. Justice Kingsmill-Moore in Gardiner v. Kildare Co.Council. ( (1951) I.R. 70 at pp. 90-91) is in these terms: 39"It has been long established by a series of authoritative cases that the mere proof that a man has acted in a p......
1 books & journal articles
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Beyond Special Measures: challenging traditional constructions of competence and cross-examination for vulnerable witnesses in Ireland
...basis by Irish courts. See, for instance, People (DPP) v MJM (Unreported, Court of Criminal Appeal 28 July 1995). 103 People (AG) v Kehoe [1951] IR 70, 71. 104 Smith and Hudson, for instance, discovered that the types of questions asked by a judge have a direct impact on the resulting compe......