VOLUNTARY ACTS

• The act or omission must be voluntary on the part of the defendant. If the defendant has no control over his or her actions, then he or she has not committed the actus reus
• HILL v BAKER (1958)

  The defendant ignored a road sign causing his van to crash. He claimed to have remembered nothing for some time before the crash and said he was an automaton. He was convicted as there was no real evidence of him being an automaton