What is the test for the concept of salvage in the section 145(1) of the Criminal Code?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Thompson v. Widjaja, 2003 BCCA 569 (CanLII):
The only case in this Court of which I am aware bearing on the construction of the section (and its facts are very different from these facts) is Miller v. Wollaston (1929), 41 B.C.R. 145, in which the court said that the section then in force, which is not materially different from the present section, has within it the concept of salvage.
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