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3 judgments
August 1987
Inambao v People (Appeal 20 of 1987) [1987] ZMSC 50 (11 August 1987)
Sentence reduced where trial judge relied on an irrelevant generalisation about police conduct despite provocation.
  • Criminal law — Manslaughter — Provocation as mitigating factor — Sentencing — Appeal against sentence — Sentence imposed on wrong principle where trial judge relied on irrelevant general observations about police use of firearms — Substitution of sentence.
11 August 1987
Kangwindi v People (Appeal 132 of 1984) [1987] ZMSC 47 (11 August 1987)
Detention of refractory witnesses and an admitted confession supported conviction and an eight-year sentence for commercial stock theft.
  • Criminal law — stock theft — detention of refractory witnesses to compel testimony — reliability of witness evidence — admissibility and weight of confession denied by accused — mandatory minimum sentence for repeat offender and commercialization of theft.
11 August 1987
Moono v People (Appeal 84 of 1985) [1987] ZMSC 45 (11 August 1987)
Court upheld ten-year manslaughter sentence as not excessive given the applicant’s aggressive conduct.
  • Criminal law — Manslaughter — Appeal against severity of sentence — Aggressor’s conduct (following victims, assaulting wife, striking deceased with a stone) justified upholding ten-year sentence.
11 August 1987