Criminal law worksheet with answers

In English law, a "wound" for section 20 OAPA 1861 requires:

1. AA break in both layers of the skin
2. BAny visible bruise on the body
3. CA broken bone
4. DLoss of consciousness

A person who helps or encourages another to commit a crime, without carrying out the act themselves, is called:

1. AAn accessory (secondary party)
2. BA principal offender
3. CA co-defendant witness
4. DAn innocent agent

Mens rea refers to:

1. AThe victim's state of mind
2. BThe punishment for a crime
3. CThe physical act of a crime
4. DThe mental element of a crime

Joint enterprise (accessorial liability) after R v Jogee requires that the accessory:

1. AWas present at the scene by chance
2. BWas related to the principal
3. CIntended to assist or encourage the principal to commit the crime
4. DMerely foresaw as a real possibility that the principal might commit the crime

A, a lifeguard paid to watch a pool, reads a magazine while a child drowns. A could be liable for an omission because of:

1. AHaving created the dangerous situation
2. BA contractual duty to act
3. CA special relationship with the child's parents
4. DBeing the only person who saw the child

D buys a substance believing it is heroin and intends to sell it on. In fact it is harmless powder. Following R v Shivpuri, D is:

1. ANot guilty, because the substance was harmless
2. BGuilty of the full offence of dealing drugs
3. CGuilty of attempt, as impossibility is no defence under the 1981 Act
4. DNot guilty, because attempting the impossible is no offence under the 1981 Act

In R v Cunningham (1957), D tore a gas meter off a wall to steal money; gas leaked and poisoned a neighbour. The court held "maliciously" means:

1. AFailing to notice a risk an ordinary person would see
2. BActing in a way that is against the law
3. CActing with wickedness or ill will towards the victim, as in ordinary usage
4. DIntending the harm or foreseeing the risk of it and taking it anyway

In Sweet v Parsley (1970), a landlady was convicted of being concerned in the management of premises used for smoking cannabis. The House of Lords:

1. AHeld that landladies have a duty to search their tenants
2. BQuashed the conviction, holding that mens rea is presumed unless Parliament clearly excludes it
3. CUpheld the conviction because drug offences are always strict liability in order to protect public health
4. DHeld that cannabis offences require a commercial purpose