Wednesday 15 November 2017

Elements of Actus Reus

It is essential that every criminal offense contains elements of Actus Reus. This lecture will focus on those physical aspects of criminal offenses. The actus figures for every offense is different. The Actus Reus elements of an offense are every element within the definition of the offense, which is not related to the state of mind of the defendant.

Criminal Law

Wilmington was a 21-year old farm laborer. Three months after his marriage to a seventeen-year-old girl named Violet, she left him and went to live with her mother. Wilmington stole a double-barrel shotgun and cartridges from his employer, sawed off the Barrow, throwing it into a brook and then bicycled over to his mother-in-law's house, where he shot and killed Violet.