LAWS 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Maude Barlow, Isaac Ray, Belgian Medical Component
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Note: page references refer to (12th edition/13th edition) Iii: mistake eg. beaver, where thought he was selling milk sugar but it was really heroin. What if he thought it was heroin, but thought heroin was legal: v. mcleod (1954, bcca, mentioned p. 731/713) Acquitted of assaulting a police officer; crown appeals. Facts: 17 years old fight between and somebody else. Secord of rcmp arrived on scene, in plain clothes, tried to break up the fight. Didn"t know he was a police officer; tried to pull officer off, told him to mind his own business. Officer resisted; punched him in the nose. Ratio: what makes this type of assault more aggravating than a regular assault are the facts that (1) v is a police officer (2) in the execution of his duty. [note: mistake can be combined with self-defence: thought that he was defending himself against v, which was not true] [note: followed in r. v. collins (1989, ont.
