Note 353 — Chapter XVIII · INTENTION AND NEGLIGENCE.

Roberts’ Case, Dearsly C. C. 539. Per Parke, B., at p. 551: “An attempt at committing a misdemeanour is not an indictable attempt unless it is an act directly approximating to the commission of an offence, and I think this act is a sufficient approximation. I do not see for what lawful purpose the dies of a foreign coin can be used in England, or for what purpose they could have been procured except to use them for coining.” Per Wightman, J., at p. 551: “It is an act immediately connected with the commission of the offence, and in truth the prisoner could have no other object than to commit the offence.” Per Jervis, C. J., at p. 550: “The prisoner was in possession of machinery necessarily connected with the offence, for the express purpose of committing it, and which was obtained and could be used for no other purpose.”