ABSTRACT
Robert Goff LJ: ... [I]t was pressed upon us by Lord Gifford [counsel for the appellant] that there either was, or should be, a comparable rule of English law, whereby, as a matter of policy, no man should be convicted of homicide (or, we imagine, any crime of violence to another person) unless he himself, or another person acting in concert with him, fired the shot (or, we imagine, struck the blow) which was the immediate cause of the victim’s death (or injury).
