Wilio v The King
Court of Appeal
Priest, Beach and Kaye JJA
27/04/2023
[2023] VSCA 88
Criminal law — Appeal — Conviction — Statutory murder — Unintentional killing of a co-offender — Accused fatally shot accomplice during attempted armed robbery — Whether co-offender complicit in act of violence — Whether accused liable for statutory murder in circumstances where deceased was an accomplice or co-offender in relevant act of violence in the course or furtherance of a crime — Whether accomplice was ‘another person’ — Crimes Act 1958 (Vic), ss 3A, 323, 324
Criminal procedure — Prosecutor’s duty to call relevant witness — Whether prosecutor required to call witness who may give evidence of exculpatory conversation with accused
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