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    The prisoners, crew members of a shipwrecked yacht, were stranded in an open boat with another crew member and a boy for over a week without food or water. In a desperate effort to survive, the prisoners killed the boy and fed on his body for four days until they were rescued. The court held that the prisoners were guilty of willful murder, as necessity is not a justification for killing another person.

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    The prisoners, crew members of a shipwrecked yacht, were stranded in an open boat with another crew member and a boy for over a week without food or water. In a desperate effort to survive, the prisoners killed the boy and fed on his body for four days until they were rescued. The court held that the prisoners were guilty of willful murder, as necessity is not a justification for killing another person.

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    R. v. Dudley and Stephens 14 Q.B.D 273

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    The prisoners, crew members of a shipwrecked yacht, were stranded in an open boat with another crew member and a boy for over a week without food or water. In a desperate effort to survive, the prisoners killed the boy and fed on his body for four days until they were rescued. The court held that the prisoners were guilty of willful murder, as necessity is not a justification for killing another person.

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    Dudley And Stephens, 14


    Q.B.D, 273
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    Course Ghana Legal System & Method

    Last edited time @September 8, 2023 1:47 PM

    FACTS: The prisoners, another man and the deceased, were the crew of an English
    yacht, which was cast away in a storm on the high seas and were compelled to put into
    an open boat. The food they took with them got finished and after eight days without
    food and six days without water, the prisoners planned and killed the deceased. The
    deceased when killed was lying at the bottom of the boat, helpless, weak and unable to
    make any resistance, and did not assent to his being killed. The prisoners and the other
    man fed upon the body and blood of the boy for four days, when a passing vessel
    picked them up.
    HELD: The prisoners had no justification for killing the deceased and were therefore
    guilty of willful murder.

    R. v. Dudley And Stephens, 14 Q.B.D, 273 1

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