CRW2601 - General Principles Of Criminal Law (CRW2601)
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CRW2601
General Principle of Criminal Law
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CRW2601 Multiple Choice
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Question 6
(a) Necessity always stems from an unlawful human act.
(b) The cognitive component of criminal capacity is present if X has the ability to
conduct himself in accordance with his appreciation of the wrongfulness of his
conduct.
(c) Vicarious Liability applies only to statutory crimes.
(1) Only Statement (a) is correct.
(2) Only Statement (b) is correct.
(3) Only statements (a) and (c) Are correct.
(4) None of these statements is correct.
(5) Only Statement (c) Is correct.
Question 7
(a) An Act in obedience to an Unlawful order can only be justified if the order is not
manifestly unlawful.
(b) The Reasonable person is a figment of the imagination of the bonus paterfamilias.
(c) In Materially defined crimes requiring Negligence it must be proved that X was
negligent in the causing of a result.
(1) Only Statement (a) is correct.
(2) Only statements (a) and (b) are correct.
(3) All The statements are correct.
(4) Only statements (a) and (c) Are correct.
(5) Only Statements (b) and (c) Are correct.
Question 8
(a) Putative private defence is a defence excluding culpability and not a defence
excluding the element of unlawfulness.
(b) In Mtshiza 1970 (3) SA 747 (A) the court approved the transferred intent approach in
respect of cases involving aberration ictus.
(c) The test for dolus eventualis is whether a person ought to have foreseen the
possibility of a consequence ensuing.
(1) Only Statements (a) and (b) are correct.
(2) None of These statements is correct.
(3) Only Statement (a) is correct.
(4) Only statement (b) is correct.
(5) Only statements (a) and (c) are correct.
Question 9
(a) The words “mental illness” in section 78(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of
1977 refer to a pathological disturbance of the mental faculties.
(b) In Eadie 2002 (1) SACR 663 (SCA) the court held that the defence of non-
pathological criminal incapacity resulting from provocation or emotional stress
amounts to the defence of sane automatism.
(c) Children younger than 14 years are irrebuttably presumed to lack criminal capacity.
(1) Only Statement (a) is correct.
(2) Only statement (b) is correct.
(3) Only statements (a) and (b) are correct.
(4) Only Statements (a) and (c) are correct.
(5) Only statement (c) is correct.
Question 10
(a) In terms of the ius strictum principle crimes should be defined clearly and not
vaguely.
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