What is the meaning of the charge in the count "unlawfully murder"?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Chichak, 1978 ALTASCAD 14 (CanLII):
The count simply alleges that the respondent "did unlawfully murder". There is no allegation of the means used by the respondent in so doing. There is not, in the words of Moir J.A. in Regina v. McDowell, a "description of the offence as charged in the count including (sic) the commission of another offence."
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