Example sentences of "the accused [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accused steals the grouse from both the poacher and the landowner . |
| 2 | It would seem to cover the situation where the accused takes the victim 's umbrella dishonestly and the victim buys back the umbrella , not realising that it is his own . |
| 3 | If the accused takes the umbrella and leaves it on a bus , the victim is unlikely to get it back . |
| 4 | The position is different where the accused takes the victim 's season ticket , uses it up and then hands it back . |
| 5 | It is not sufficient that the accused takes the car as a joke , as happened in Stokes [ 1982 ] Crim LR 695 ( CA ) , where the accused pushed a car round a corner in order to create the impression that it had been stolen . |
| 6 | There was no need for the accused to reach the restaurant door . |
| 7 | Charles decided that the accused had the bank 's authority to draw the cheque so as to create a contract between the bank and the payee . |
| 8 | The old classification of manslaughter was into voluntary and involuntary , the former being when the accused had the mens rea for murder but there is some mitigating factor , which could be provocation , diminished responsibility or killing in pursuance of a suicide pact . |
| 9 | Until the accused diverted the goods he was following the owner 's instructions . |
| 10 | This type occurs where the accused represents the truth to another but afterwards the facts change and the accused does not inform the victim that the facts have changed . |
| 11 | The position has been held to apply to an insurance agent , who was under no duty to hand those notes and coins to the company ( Robertson [ 1977 ] Crim LR 173 ( CA ) ) , and to a person in receipt of housing benefit , who was under no legal obligation to use the money to pay off rent arrears ( DPP v Huskinson [ 1988 ] Crim LR 620 ) , even though that was the purpose for which the accused received the benefit . |
| 12 | The Divisional Court in the second case even said that s.12 was inapplicable where there was a fundamental mistake e.g. the accused deceived the victim as to his identity . |
| 13 | The main charge was contested in four of the cases , while the accused admitted the offences in four others ; in the remaining case , the father admitted the charge , while the mother contested the case . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that " on " means " against " and therefore it is not robbery if the accused snatches the victim 's bag unless the victim retains hold or recovers it and there is a fight . |
| 15 | Under Morris any assumption of any of the rights of the owner suffices , and there is no need to prove that the accused deprived the owner of anything . |
| 16 | If no lease was in existence at the time when the accused made the false representation , it is believed that the accused would not be guilty under s.15 of obtaining possession of the land by deception because he would not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 17 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 18 | The Privy Council refused to decide this point in Chan Man-sin , where the accused assumed the rights of the owner by drawing on the account . |
| 19 | Following their usual custom the accused kept the medal until the victim collected it later in the day when the latter would pay for it . |
| 20 | Section 3 on this |
| 21 | In Phipps the accused borrowed the car to drive his wife to Victoria Station . |
| 22 | In Lamb , above , the accused pulled the trigger of a gun and killed his best friend , but there was no assault because both did not expect a bullet to come out of the barrel . |
| 23 | It must be proved that the accused handled the goods " knowing or believing them to be stolen goods " and that he acted dishonestly . |
| 24 | The offence was not committed when the accused started the engine of the bus but made no attempt to move it . |
| 25 | ( h ) Leaving aside the Court of Appeal decision in Lawrence , the overlap occurs where the accused obtains the property by deception but has not obtained ownership at the moment of the appropriation . |
| 26 | Similarly , if the accused obtains the thing by deception through inducing a mistaken belief in the mind of the victim but ownership is not transferred because of the type of mistake , the victim retains an interest within s.5(1) and accordingly the property can be stolen by the accused 's appropriation . |
| 27 | When the accused entered the room , he had appreciated that something had or was taking place because the youths had been leaning over his fiancee . |
| 28 | The court heard the accused told the police that sexual intercourse had taken place with the woman 's consent . |
| 29 | ‘ Appropriates ’ is generally proved by a witness stating that the accused picked the property up or put it in a shopping bag or a pocket . |
| 30 | With regard to the taking of money , the accused has the intention permanently to deprive the victim of the coins and notes actually taken , even though he means to replace them with an equivalent amount . |