S v Teixeira
| Jurisdiction | South Africa |
| Citation | 1980 (3) SA 755 (A) |
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32 practice notes
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S v Mncube en 'n Ander
...(4) SA 712 (A) op 720; S v Moller 1971 (4) SA 327 (T); R v Mutswasi (1931) 48 SALJ 343; R v Hope 1917 NPD 145 op 146; S v Teixeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A) op 765; Ntanjana v Voster and the Minister of Justice 1950 (4) SA 398 (K) op 407D; R v K 1956 (3) SA 353 (A) op 358G - 359B; R v Zikalala 19......
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S v Mnyamana and Another
...S v Mgedezi and Others 1989 (1) SA 687 (A) at 703B; R v Mashelele and Another 1944 AD 571; S v Guess 1976 (4) SA 715 (A); S v Teixeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A). [The Court upheld the appellants' appeals on 3 November 1989 and handed down the following reasons for judgment on 20 November 1989.] E......
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S v S
...v Andrews ('n ongerapporteerde uitspraak van die Kaapse Provinsiale Afdeling); S v Sauls and Others 1981 (3) SA 172 (A); S v Teixeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A) en S v Snyman B 1968 (2) SA 582 (A). Die eerste drie van hierdie gewysdes handel slegs oor die benadering van die getuienis van 'n enkelg......
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S v Prinsloo and Others
...Others 1967 (4) SA 170 (W): dicta at 177H – 178B applied S v Sixishe 1992 (1) SACR 624 (CkA): dictum at 626b – c applied S v Texeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A): dicta at 763H – 764C compared S v Van der Westhuizen 2011 (2) SACR 26 (SCA): dictum in para [11] applied F S v Verwey 1968 (4) SA 682 (A)......
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S v Mncube en 'n Ander
...(4) SA 712 (A) op 720; S v Moller 1971 (4) SA 327 (T); R v Mutswasi (1931) 48 SALJ 343; R v Hope 1917 NPD 145 op 146; S v Teixeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A) op 765; Ntanjana v Voster and the Minister of Justice 1950 (4) SA 398 (K) op 407D; R v K 1956 (3) SA 353 (A) op 358G - 359B; R v Zikalala 19......
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S v Mnyamana and Another
...S v Mgedezi and Others 1989 (1) SA 687 (A) at 703B; R v Mashelele and Another 1944 AD 571; S v Guess 1976 (4) SA 715 (A); S v Teixeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A). [The Court upheld the appellants' appeals on 3 November 1989 and handed down the following reasons for judgment on 20 November 1989.] E......
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S v S
...v Andrews ('n ongerapporteerde uitspraak van die Kaapse Provinsiale Afdeling); S v Sauls and Others 1981 (3) SA 172 (A); S v Teixeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A) en S v Snyman B 1968 (2) SA 582 (A). Die eerste drie van hierdie gewysdes handel slegs oor die benadering van die getuienis van 'n enkelg......
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S v Prinsloo and Others
...Others 1967 (4) SA 170 (W): dicta at 177H – 178B applied S v Sixishe 1992 (1) SACR 624 (CkA): dictum at 626b – c applied S v Texeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A): dicta at 763H – 764C compared S v Van der Westhuizen 2011 (2) SACR 26 (SCA): dictum in para [11] applied F S v Verwey 1968 (4) SA 682 (A)......
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2 books & journal articles
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The two reasons for the existence of private defence and their effect on the rules relating to the defence in South Africa
...expose himself to the risk of a stab in the back, when by killing his assailant he can secure his own safety.' See also S v Teixeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A) at 765C: 'Even on an armchair approach, it appears that with the deceased being less than a metre away from him, it would have been an act......
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Recent Case: General principles and specific offences
...would not exclude the possibility of the operation of the private defence justication ground (see, for example, S v Teixeira 1980 (3) SA 755 (A) at 765, where the Appellate Division held that the state had failed to prove that when the accused fatally shot the deceased, who was brandishing......