Read the full judgment text of HCMA 162/2016 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 February 2017.
1. The Appellant was convicted after trial in the Magistrates’ Court of common assault. He appeals against his conviction. The prosecution’s case, which the Magistrate found proved beyond reasonable doubt, was that on 8 November 2015, in the public housing unit allocated to his wife, the Appellant assaulted her by pouring a bucket of mixture containing faeces over her. If the wife’s evidence is accurate, then the Appellant did indeed so assault her. The Appellant denied the charge, saying th