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Question 1
Read the following facts then choose the correct option below: X is employed as a
lifeguard at a resort. The pool has a signboard warning persons that they enter the pool at
their own risk. One day, during an out-of-season period, Y, who is a guest at the resort,
decides to enter the pool even though he is not a good swimmer. Y, who is of a much
bigger build than X, enters the pool, stumbles on the steps, and finds himself drowning. X
is apprehensive to enter the pool to rescue Y as he is afraid that they would both drown as
Y is so much larger than him. X throws a lifesaving buoy to Y to cling onto, but Y does not
see the buoy. There is no one else to assist and Y drowns and dies.
Select one:
A.
X will be convicted of culpable homicide because as a lifeguard, he has a legal duty to act
positively even though this act would have caused his own death.
B.
X will not be convicted of culpable homicide because Y entered the pool aware that he is
entering at his own risk and that he is not a good swimmer.
C.
X will not be convicted of culpable homicide because it was impossible for him to save Y
because of Y’s much larger physique.
D.
X will be convicted of culpable homicide because his omission was voluntary.
Question 2
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Eadie 2002 (1) SACR 663 (SCA) held that:
Select one:
A.
a plea of non-pathological criminal incapacity owing to emotional stress and provocation is
nothing else than the defence of insane automatism.
B.
for the defence of non-pathological criminal incapacity to succeed, there is no need to
prove that, at the time of the commission of the act, X was suffering from a mental illness.
C.
there is no difference between the conative leg of criminal capacity and the act requirement
in criminal liability that X’s bodily movements must be voluntary.
D.
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