In distinctive circumstances defences can apply to particular acts, such as killing in self defence, or pleading insanity. Another instance is within the 19th-century English case of R v Dudley and Stephens, which tested a defence of “necessity”. Three crew members and Richard Parker, a 17-yr-old cabin boy, were stranded on a raft. They argued it was necessary to kill the cabin boy to preserve their own lives.
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