CRM/LAW C144 Chapter Notes - Chapter WILCOX V JEFFERY: Coleman Hawkins, Jazz Club, Actus Reus
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Herbert william wilcox, the proprietor of a periodical called jazz illustrated . Underlying facts, the actual crime that took place. The visit of a celebrated professor of the saxophone, hawkins, who was a citizen of the. He had not arranged their visit, but he knew they were coming and he was there to report the arrival of these important musicians for his magazine. The appellant attended that concert as a spectator and paid for his ticket: hawkins went on the stage and delighted the audience by playing the saxophone. The appellant did not get up and protest in the name of the musicians of. England that hawkins ought not be here competing with them and taking the bread out of their mouths or the wind out of their instruments. Appellant was charged on an information that on dec. 11, 1949, he did unlawfully aid and abet one coleman hawkins in contravening art.