R v. Faulkner (1877) is a key reported appeal the Court for Crown Cases Reserved: holding that the mens rea for committing one criminal act does not necessarily transfer to all possible, potentially in other ways criminal, consequences of that act.

He was not allowed into the cargo hold, but he entered it, poked a hole in a barrel of rum, and drank some of it; to see while plugging this, he lit a match.

The trial court found the defendant guilty of larceny for the rum and arson for the ship.

[3] Oblique intentions have led to a range of precedent-level decisions for follow-on or aggravated offenses relating to criminal damage.

Its fact pattern was interference with a gas meter for financial gain, yet causing injury.