R v Gorrie
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Court | Central Criminal Court (Ireland) |
| Date | 1919 |
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6 cases
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K.M. v DPP
...to establish beyond reasonable doubt that he knew that the conduct was seriously wrong and not merely mischievious. R. v. GorrieUNK (1919) 83 J.P. 136 approved. 7. In the circumstances, there was evidence upon which a jury could conclude that the presumption should be rebutted and consequen......
- J. M. (A Minor) v Runeckles
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R v T
...9 More recently, where the question of whether a child was doli incapax has arisen, the courts have put a gloss on this test. Thus, in R v Gorrie (1918) 83 JP 136 Salter J directed the jury that the prosecution had to satisfy them that when the boy who was accused committed the act charged ......
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B v DPP
...by Morris J (as he then was) in the KM v. DPP case. He adopted the definition of the presumption as given by Slater J in R v. Gorrie [1919] 83 JP 136, where Morris J stated as follows at p.523:- “[…] I take as a correct statement of the law that contained in the direction given in Slater J.......
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3 books & journal articles
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Unfitness to Plead and the Overlap with Doli Incapax: An Examination of the Law Commission's Proposals for a New Capacity Test
...edited by A. M. Pritchard (1961) 420.17 Ibid. at 419.18 See n. 6.19 Increased to 10 by statute, see above n. 9.20 (1830) 4 C & P 236.21 (1919) 83 JP 136.22 As opposed to naughty or mischievous: JM (A Minor) vRuneckles (1984) 79 Cr AppR 255.23 (1845) 1 Cox CC 265.24 R v Gorrie (1919) 83 JP 1......
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The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: A Medico-Legal Perspective
......However, since the time of Edward III (1312−1377), the principle of doli incapax – the notion that at certain ages children are incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong and, more latterly, ‘seriously wrong’ (R v Gorrie, 1918) − provided addi- tional legal protection. . Corresponding author: Enys Delmage, Lowther Building, St Andrew’s Healthcare, Billing Road, Northampton NN1 5DG, UK. Email: ejdelmage@standrew.co.uk . . Delmage . 103 . The 1778 edition of Hale’s History of the Pleas of the ......
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No Defence of Doli Incapax
......The effect of the rebuttable presumption was that the prosecution had to adduce evid- ence that, at the time of the offence, the child understood that what he was doing was seriously wrong as opposed to merely naughty or mis- chievous ( R v Gorrie (1918) 83 JP 136; JM (A Minor) v Runeckles (1984) 79 Cr App R 255). The prosecution could not rely solely on the evidence of the offence itself, however serious or obviously wrong the crime might be ( R v Smith (1865) 1 Cox CC 260; JBH and JM (Minors) v O’Connell [1981] Crim LR 632). ......