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THE QUEEN v. DUDLEY AND STEPHENS December 9, 1884

THE QUEEN v. DUDLEY AND STEPHENSD ecember 9, 1884 Criminal Law -- Murder -- Killing and eating Flesh of Human Being underPressure of Hunger -- "Necessity" -- Special Verdict -- Certiorari -- Offence onHigh Seas -- Jurisdiction of High CourtA man who, in order to escape death from hunger, kills another for the purpose of eating hisflesh, is guilty of murder; although at the time of the act he is in such circumstances that hebelieves and has reasonable ground for believing that it affords the only chance of preserving the trial of an indictment for murder it appeared, upon a special verdict, that the prisoners S.

Stephen, Digest of Criminal Law, art. 32, Necessity. The law as to compulsion by necessity is further explained in Stephen's History of the Criminal Law, vol. ii., p. 108, and an opinion is expressed that in the case often put by casuists, of two drowning men on a plank large enough to support one only,

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