What the records say
- When
- 9 Dec 1884
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 27.17° S, 9.83° W
- Description
- Tom Dudley and Edwin Stephens are convicted of murder in the survival cannibalism case of R v. Dudley and Stephens in the English courts.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, R v Dudley and Stephens.
R v Dudley and Stephens
1884 English criminal case
R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273, DC is a leading English criminal case which established a precedent throughout the common law world that necessity is not a defence to a charge of murder. The case concerned survival cannibalism at sea following a shipwreck and the question of whether killing someone is acceptable if one's own survival is at stake.
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