Question

PRINCIPLE: Wherever the causing of a certain effect, or an attempt to cause that effect, by an act or by an omission, is an offence, it is to be understood that the causing of that effect partly by an act and partly by an omission is the same offence.
FACTS: A intentionally omitted to give food to his father. He also used to beat his father. Consequently, A's father died.

• A. A did not commit any offence
• B. A committed only the offence of omitting to give food to his father
• C. A committed only the offence of beating of his father
• D. A committed the offence of killing of his father

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

A committed the offence of killing of his father

A has committed the offence of killing his father. Both omissions to give food to his father and Beating up his father have contributed in the death of A's Father equally. The principle states that causing of an effect, here the death of A's father, partly by an act and partly by an omission is the same offense.

Therefore A has committed the offence of the killing of his father.