Paton v HM Advocate 1936 JC 19
Citation: Paton v HM Advocate 1936 JC 19
Rule of thumb: What is the legal test that must be proved for culpable homicide? The test is gross or wicked negligence which leads to a person being killed.
Judgment:
"it is now necessary to show gross, or wicked, or criminal negligence, something amounting, or at any rate analogous, to a criminal indifference to consequences, before a jury can find culpable homicide proved". Justice-Clerk Aitchison at 22
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