Read the full judgment text of CACC 000178/1993 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 31 May 1994 before Yang CJ, Macdougall V-P, Bokhary JA.
Criminal law – murder – robbery – theft – leave to appeal – conviction – sentence – misdirection – jury – evidence – consistency – alternative verdict – manslaughter – totality – manifestly excessive – modus operandi – nightclub hostess – ligature strangulation – The applicant sought leave to appeal against his conviction for murder and against a totality of 15 years for 13 charges of robbery and theft. The grounds for appeal against conviction were that the trial judge misdirected the jury on the consistency of evidence from two hotel cleaners and did not sufficiently direct on the alternative verdict of manslaughter. The court found no merit in either ground, holding that the judge sufficiently dealt with the evidence and correctly addressed manslaughter. The application for leave to appeal against conviction was refused. As to sentence, the court noted the applicant committed 13 robberies and thefts within a short period using a similar modus operandi, warranting a substantial sentence. The court could not say the individual sentences or the totality were wrong in principle or manifestly excessive. The application for leave to appeal against sentence was also refused.
Legal issues: Leave to appeal against conviction for murder · Leave to appeal against sentence for robbery and theft
Outcome: Application for leave to appeal against conviction for murder refused; application for leave to appeal against sentence for robbery and theft refused.