alternative verdictの例文

• This offence is an alternative verdict under section 12 ( 4 ) which provides:
• Originally, the proviso allowed the jury to find an alternative verdict of this offence on a charge of murder.
• Second, it was argued that manslaughter should have been available to the jury as an alternative verdict to murder.
• The offence created by section 12 ( 1 ) of the Theft Act 1968 ( TWOC ) is available an alternative verdict on an indictment for theft.
• The jury, which deliberated for nine hours Tuesday and Wednesday, rejected two alternative verdicts _ guilty but mentally ill and not guilty by reason of insanity.
• The Act specified common assault as an alternative verdict to a count on an aggravated assault in the Crown Court, though it is not itself an indictable offence.
• Those laws add a fourth option to the traditional alternative verdicts of guilty, not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity in cases in which defendants plead insanity.
• In England and Wales, it was subsequently extended to allow the jury to find an alternative verdict of this offence on a charge of child destruction or a charge of infanticide.
• On the trial of an indictment for capital murder, the jury could not return an alternative verdict to the offence charged in that indictment under section 6 ( 2 ) of the Criminal Law Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1967.
• In some jurisdictions this has been addressed by statute; see, for example, s . 124, " Crimes Act " 1900 ( NSW ) allowing a jury to reach an alternative verdict of " fraudulent appropriation ".
• Common assault is now available as an alternative verdict under section 6 ( 3 ) of the Criminal Law Act 1967, by virtue of section 6 ( 3A ) of that Act ( which was inserted by section 11 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 ).
• That attempting to cause grievous bodily harm must be an alternative verdict should the intended victim not die would be a strange outcome because there is no intention to cause any long-lasting and serious injury : the two attempted offences have different " mens rea " requirements so that proof of intent to murder would not necessarily meet the requirement for section 18 of the 1861 Act.