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Criminal Liability - Thabo Meli and Others v Reginam 1954.
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Criminal Liability Tutorial 5 Thabo Meli and Others v Reginam [1954] 1 WLR 228, [1954] 1 All ER 373 (c) Privy Council A) Is the case rightly decided? Yes. It was the Appellants intention to kill/murder the deceased. They committed a voluntary act and bludgeoned him and assumed he was dead. Then, when convinced he was dead attempted to disguise means of death, destroy/dispose of his corpse. That they had mens reus whilst committing the first act without fulfilling the act, and mens reus was not present in the second act but the second act completes the intention of the first act, in the death of the deceased and should not render the appellants not culpable for the outcome. Convincing reasons for, the Privy Council: WILLIAMS (C.P.L.G.) states: "the accused intends to kill and does kill his only mistake is to as the precise moment of death and as to the precise act that effects death....
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