People (Attorney General) v Kehoe

JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date19 June 1951
Date19 June 1951
CourtCentral 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
  • DPP v Campion
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 30 Julio 2018
    ...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......
  • Relihan v Kerry County Council
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 14 Mayo 1970
    ...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......
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