A close analysis of section 8 of the Criminal Code Law discloses the following requirements or preconditions that must be established before a conviction based thereunder…

Common intention in criminal law may be inferred from circumstances described in the evidence led before the court and need not be provable only by the…

Where two or more persons set out to commit an unlawful purpose, and one of them is known by the others to be armed with a…

In the context of section 8 of the Criminal Code, the common intention of accused persons must be distinguished from their common object. Where the crime…

Where all appellants after their meeting went out together at midnight for an unlawful purpose in conjunction with one another, and in order to foster or…

Where the appellants after their meeting proceeded directly to execute their common design armed with a gun, and that gun was used in the course of…

It is not the requirement of any law that if a confessional statement has not been read over and confirmed before a Superior Police Officer, it…

The question of the voluntariness of a statement is tested at the time the statement is sought to be tendered in evidence. Where statements were tendered…

While medical evidence to prove the cause of death is desirable in homicide cases, this is not absolutely essential. To make the accused criminally liable in…

Where the identity of the deceased was at no time in doubt whether before or after he was shot dead by the first appellant, and the…

The action seeking in this court for a relief already before another court in a pending action between the parties is without doubt an abuse of…

When the composition of the community comprising a state changes as fundamentally as in this case by a redefinition of the areas comprising the state, it…