Criminal Law

according appellate division applied assault attack Burchell and Hunt Burchell and Milton causation cause charged circumstances commission commit a crime common-law comply concept consent Constitution convicted court criminal capacity criminal law criminal liability Criminal Procedure Criminal Procedure Act culpable homicide definitional elements discussion dolus eventualis English law example exclude fact firearm ground of justification guilty high treason housebreaking Hunt-Milton infra intercourse intoxication Jescheck and Weigend kill LAWSA means mens rea mental illness merely Milton ch murder negligence normative offence omission perpetrator police possession possibility private defence prohibited provisions punishment question rape reasonable person relating respect result retribution Roman-Dutch law rule SACJ SACR SALJ Schönke-Schröder sentence sexual intercourse situation Snyman South Africa strict liability subjective submitted supra theft theory of culpability THRHR tion transferred intent unlawfully Wet and Swanepoel words wrong X's act X's conduct X's intention Y's death