The appellants were convicted of second degree murder following a severe beating of the victim.
At trial, the judge found that the appellants had the capacity to form the intent to commit murder despite evidence of their intoxication.
The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal and ordered a new trial, holding that the trial judge misdirected himself by focusing on the capacity to form intent rather than whether the appellants possessed the actual specific intent to kill, applying the newly established framework from R. v. Robinson.
