Read the full judgment text of CACC 001165/1978 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 28 June 1979.
1. This is an appeal against a conviction on a charge of murder. It is a sad story. The Deceased was a man of eighty. The Appellant is a man of sixty-eight. They had apparently been disputing between themselves for some time. On 17th May 1978 the Appellant went to the Deceased's premises. He had taken with him a tael of gold intending to reach a compromise of the disputes between them: the Appellant was rightly or wrongly under the impression that the Deceased was spreading false rumours about h